Aahhh. Yes, I already have Mandrake 8.0 installed and the 2.2 kernel is up
and running just fine. I'm just trying to upgrade to the 2.4 kernel.
I'm guessing I need an initrd, but i'm not really sure what that is or how
to use it :). I remember seeing one linked on your webpage, but i wasn't
sure what to do with it. And why is this different than what is needed for
the 2.2 kernel?
thanks
-chris
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stew Benedict" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 12:13 PM
Subject: Re: problems with 2.4 kernel on oldworld mac
>
> On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, Chris Mann wrote:
>
> > Hi, I'm trying to get the 2.4 kernel working on my oldworld mac, but am
not
> > really getting very far. i have a umax j700 with a turbomax ata card.
the
> > root parition is on a scsi disk. I'm using BootX v1.2.3. To even get
> > anywhere i have to check the No video driver option in boot x otherwise
the
> > screen just blacks out and the machine freezes.
> >
> > With any of the 2.4 mandrake supplied kernels, it starts to load, but
never
> > detects the scsi interface, so i get the message:
> > VFS: cannot open root device "sda8" or 08:08
> >
> > looks like it sees the ide devices and other hardware fine (although
> > everything scrolls by so fast, it's hard to see). when booting with the
> > 2.2. kernel scsi0 is MESH and scsi1 is 53C94. is there anything i can
do to
> > force the 2.4 kernel to use the modules (I'm assuming these are modules,
but
> > am fairly new with this part of linux).
> >
> > the 2.4.10pre2 kernel from ppckernel.org doesn't even get that far. it
just
> > freezes at some sort of hardware checking stage.
> >
> > thanks for any help.
> >
>
> Please clarify. Have you already installed and you're trying to use 2.4.4
> instead of 2.2 (2.4 should have been installed). If your "/" is on a SCSI
> drive you need an initrd with the appropriate driver.
>
> If you are trying to install, stage 1 should allow you to load the SCSI
> module, regardless of which kernel is being used, provided you use the
> appropriate stage1 image for the kernel (all.gz).
>
> Stew Benedict
>
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