I posted this yesterday, but was installing/fiddling with redhat and
have not seen it show up on the smp list, so am retrying assuming that
I botched it.
I am having a problem with redhat 6 and lilo on my quad xeon... I was
running redhat 5, with 2.2.9 with no problems and have had this quad xeon
up since december...
after installing redhat 6, and then upgrading to 2.2.9 again, I have the
following very strange behavior:
When I boot and let it run with no iteraction, I get the booting the
kernel message, a lot of probe info, the scsi driver finds the drives,
and then right at the point where init should start doing its thing,
I get:
VFS: cannot open root device 00:80
kernel panic: VSF: unable to mount root fs on 00:80
and it hangs.
If I boot and hold the shift key down to get the LILO boot: prompt,
and just press enter, it boots and works fine. If I type "linux" at
the lilo boot prompt it works fine. If I insert the prompt and
timeout=40 lines into lilo.conf, boot it, and let the prompt time out,
it hangs.
What is magic about my pressing a key to boot? Here is my lilo.conf
that has worked forever: (note that it has the brain-dead redhat
'bug' (IMHO) removed... where redhat lilo.conf only boots a specific
vmlinuz-2.2.5 etc, rather than just vmlinuz which is a symlink to the
current kernel).
boot=/dev/sda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=linux
root=/dev/sda1
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz.old
label=old
root=/dev/sda1
read-only
I have been looking at the lilo source to see if it somehow does
something different on interactive prompt than not, but I sure don't
see it yet...
any suggestions or others having this problem?
disks are _all_ u2w scsi on this box using the ncr53c896 scsi driver
in ncr53c8xx, which was the same driver under the same kernel, but with
redhat 5 it worked. I could always try lilo-20 I guess... but it would
be better to fix it right...
Thanks...
Bob
Robert Hyatt Computer and Information Sciences
[EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Alabama at Birmingham
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