Hi, I just recompiled kernel 2.4.17, and everything's fine now. It boots an smp kernel off the hard drive with LILO. I built the AIC-7xxx SCSI driver support into the kernel. That must've been the key to accessing / during boot. Thanks, all,
Hidong Thomas Porter wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 04:11:25PM -0800, Hidong Kim thoughtfully expounded: > > I did re-run lilo. The display showed that it added the smp kernel I > > want to boot. Has anyone ever had problems booting from disk when / is > > on a SCSI drive? I think this machine has pretty decent hardware (ASUS > > motherboard, on-board AIC-7xxx, IBM SCSI hard drive). This is the only > > Linux machine of about ten we have here with a SCSI /, and this is the > > only machine which gives problems booting newly compiled kernels. All > > the other machines have / on an IDE drive. Thanks, > > I have never used a SCSI drive, but I seem to recall that you might need an > initrd.img of some kind that holds the SCSI modules the kernel needs to boot, > and that both your GRUB menu.lst and the lilo.conf need to reflect the need for > that initrd.img. Typically the initrd img files have names that match the > kernel version you want to use. See man page for mkinitrd and lilo.conf for > more details. > > -- > Tom Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > "On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], > 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will > the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the > kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
