On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 09:02:02PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > I just installed Debian 2.1 on a system with an Adaptec 2940 controller > which ran, among other things, the CD I used. After running into the > well-known problems with that controller, I made a boot floppy from the > site pointed to in the release notes (in sweden, I think). > > >From there on I pointed the install at the CD. I'm pretty sure this means > I got the vanilla kernel, because when I try to boot off the hard drive I > get the same Adaptec error. I can boot off the same diskette I used for > the install, with rescue root=/dev/hdax (from memory) getting me into the > main system. > > So I need to get the good stuff onto the hard drive. How do I do that?
Well, you could copy the file you downloaded from sweden onto your harddrive and setup lilo to boot with that -- but, honestly, probably the right thing to do is compile your own kernel with the support you need compiled in. Compiling the kernel isn't too bad; there is the debian way (look in the archives of this mail list for the last day or two for that..) and the standard way -- which basically boils down to: make menuconfig make clean ; make dep make bzImage && make modules && make modules_install Then copy /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/vzlinuz to someplace, normally /boot/vmlinuz or /vmlinuz or .. most anything else will work if you edit your lilo.conf file. Also copy /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/System.map to /boot/System.map. Then, be sure to re-run /sbin/lilo :) Of course, ymmv :) > I also noticed a reference in the email archives to another site, which had > diskette images for the boot disk and another for a driver disk. I never > used the latter, and I never told the install process to add a module to > get the fixes onto the system. > > I'd appreciate any advice. If necessary I can do another install, though > I'd naturally prefer not to. I spent several hours installing packages. > > By the way, the hard disk I am using is IDE. The system has a SCSI disk > drive (also a SCSI Jaz), but it's full. > > Thanks in advance. > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Seth Arnold | http://www.willamette.edu/~sarnold/ Hate spam? See http://maps.vix.com/rbl/ for help Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread!