Hi Jill, > Out of curiosity I booted my home PC with a new Knoppix 3.3 CD ... but > no luck this time. > It died with a kernel panic as it doesn't know about the SCSI system I > think, Adaptec 29160 controller iirc. > This is the first time I've ever had a Knoppix fail on me: usually > they are the best distro to see if the hardware works with Linux. > do you have a lilo boot prompt? or a grub boot prompt? It sounds like the adeptec module was not loaded in the initrd image. see if you can force the card loading at the boot. Do you have a recovery disk? see if that loads your scsi controller modules.
> Mind you the CD was a freebie so I don't even know if it as a proper > ISO on it... but it went through most of the motions of loading > various drivers. It would probably work if I manually specified all > the hardware. > I don't see what the diff is between freebie cds and bought from the distributer the contents are usually the same except for some extra cds or licenses they have. -- Regards, Kevin Saenz Spinaweb I.T consultants Ph: 02 4620 5130 Fax: 02 4625 9243 Mobile: 0418455661 Web: http://www.spinaweb.com.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
