On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Travis Kriza wrote:
> OK, I had Mandrake 6.0 working all fine and good on my box that was running with
>intels l440gx+ motherboard that basically has everything built in including a adaptec
>AIC7896 scsi controller with RAIDport III support(which doesn't work in linux). So
>in order to get a RAID functional, I obtained a compatible I20 compliant RAID card
>(DPT PM1554U2 Decade SMARTRaid V controller) and am trying to reinstall linux onto
>it. I have gotten the custom linux installation to recognize both scsi controllers,
>but now it does not seem to find the builtin ethernet(intel etherexpress pro 100),
>nor can it install the bootloader or create a boot floppy. It has no problem
>installing the packages to the hard drive on the adaptec controller, nor does it have
>a problem with mounting the RAID(4 9gig hd RAID level 5). I don't know if I need to
>use the supplementary disk, but I am even having trouble locating the image for those
>disks. I also have tried several combinations with the settings for !
!
both controllers but have not had any success. Does anyone have any ideas to get this
machine working?
>
> Travis
>
Sounds like your custom boot disk has a different kernel version than the
instimage, the files in Mandrake/instimage/modules on your cd/mirror need
tobe the same version as the boot disk.
