> Let me start by stating my goal.  Under RH7.1, Scsi tape 
> drives are not
> being recognized.  I have IDE hard drives, but using SCSI dat 
> drives for
> backup.  I am using Microlite's Backupedge.  Under RH 6.x, I 
> did not have a
> problem with this hardware setup.  I have tried a couple of 
> differenct Scsi
> controllers with the same results.
> 
> So the light bulb comes on, that maybe I could re-compile the 
> kernal with
> the scsi tape support already loaded to fix this problem.  I ran 'make
> menuconfig' and selected Scsi tape support as a *(as opposed 
> to M for module
> loadable) and compiled the kernal.  I copied the new kernal 
> to /boot and
> edited lilo.conf and ran lilo.  lilo exists with an error 
> message about
> Kernal does not support initial RAM disk. 
> 
> Ok, what did I do wrong?
> 
> Thanks,
> Lyle

You either need to make an initial ram disk (initrd.img), or take out
references to it in lilo.conf.  To make an initrd.img, use the command
`mkinitrd`.  Just type in the command, and it will give you an example.

Forrest



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