Thanks for the clarification below. I was clearly using the wrong kernel post-install. I I put the initrd kernel in my "Linux Kernels" folder and it was unavailable in the BootX menu. On recollection, I failed to gunzip the file...which would of course make it unavailable to BootX.
I have not had time to troubleshoot the modem in the past 36 hours, but once it works I will report my results and solution for others that may run into the same problem. John On Wednesday, March 6, 2002, at 03:45 PM, Stew Benedict wrote: > On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, John C. Tull wrote: > >> The kernel that is provided in the BootX folder within the stuffit >> archive on the .iso does not read my onboard scsi; either the mac53c94 >> module is not being loaded or is not present in the stock distro kernel >> on the .iso. Is there a kernel in a location separate from the stuffit >> archive that becomes the "installed" kernel equivalent for BootX? >> > > I thought I answered this before. The kernels in the .sit are for the > installer. The kernel in: > > [stew@powerbook-cooker export3]$ ls BootX/ > initrd-2.4.17-17mdk.img Mandrake_Linux_8.2_Install.sit > vmlinuz-2.4.17-17mdk > > Is the same kernel that the install process installed, from RPM. You > need > the initrd. Now of course it is possible the initrd does not have all > the > modules that you need. I built it on my machine and did not force every > single module into it, but offered it as an aid to the OldWorld users. > You could always boot off the rescue CD and build an initrd for your > machine, that will have the right modules, and move it to MacOS. The > other alternative would be for Mandrake to ship a 15MB kernel with every > module that every person could possible need, built in. > > [stew@powerbook-cooker export3]$ cp BootX/initrd-2.4.17-17mdk.img /tmp > [stew@powerbook-cooker export3]$ cd /tmp/ > [stew@powerbook-cooker tmp]$ mv initrd-2.4.17-17mdk.img > initrd-2.4.17-17mdk.gz > [stew@powerbook-cooker tmp]$ gunzip initrd-2.4.17-17mdk.gz > [stew@powerbook-cooker tmp]$ mkdir temp > [stew@powerbook-cooker tmp]$ sudo mount initrd-2.4.17-17mdk temp -o loop > [stew@powerbook-cooker tmp]$ cd temp/ > [stew@powerbook-cooker temp]$ ls -l lib > total 66 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11808 Feb 15 21:14 mac53c94.o > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 28836 Feb 15 21:14 mesh.o > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 23073 Feb 15 21:14 sd_mod.o > > So it looks like I did include the offending module. > > I see this 7600 has a port labelled for the phone, but I don't have a > connector for it, so I can't do much for you on troubleshooting the > OldWorld modem. > > Stew Benedict
