Linux-Hardware Digest #616, Volume #13 Fri, 22 Sep 00 13:13:06 EDT
Contents:
Re: Linux on Compaq Presario 1200 series? (Marc Geerlings)
Re: How to use 3Com ISA Ethernet Card ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: How to use 3Com ISA Ethernet Card (Hotel Balderdash)
2 SCSI cards in one machine (Larry Irons)
CMI8330 - sndconfig won't configure ("Adam Short")
svgalib & ati rage fury (Palazon Gonzalez Vicente)
LinuxPPC, Formac ProFormance 3, SGI 1600SW flat panel (Gary Trachier)
Re: Mouse right-click on desktop: how to modify pop-up menu? (Garry Knight)
Problem with ethernet card 3Com 3C509B ("Eugene Zaichkin")
Kernel'compilation (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Jean=2DSt=E9phane?= Lebrun)
Re: 2 SCSI cards in one machine (nobody)
ESS 1869 Drivers ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Problem with ethernet card 3Com 3C509B (Thomas Wallutis)
Re: How to use 3Com ISA Ethernet Card ("Simon")
esd and no dsp ("Robert L. Klungle")
Re: Lexmark 5700 under linux (Andrey Vlasov)
Re: Xeon and Red Hat Linux 6.2 (Andrey Vlasov)
Re: Kernel'compilation ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: HP Colorado (Andrey Vlasov)
Re: Kernel'compilation (John Burton)
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From: Marc Geerlings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux on Compaq Presario 1200 series?
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 13:59:40 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ken Knecht) wrote:
> I'm thinking of getting a Compaq Presario 1200 with 32M/6G. Will
> Linux run on this system sharing the HD with W98 without a lot
> of problems?
>
> TIA
>
> Ken
>
I've a Compaq Presario 1200 XL 109 with 64MB/6Gb, and I'm running Red
Hat 6.1 kernel 2.2.14. The installation was not without its problems,
videocard (cyberblade i7, I think the refresh rates of the LCD) and
sound (via686 onboard) where the problem area's. But I got a working
XFree86.conf from the internet, solved that one in 15 minutes. The
soundcard was recognized by the red hat oss drivers, but didn't work,
giving a error message 'device busy'. I replaced the sounddrivers
with latest alsa sounddrivers 0.5.9 (worked not with earlier versions),
now the sound is working great. Even the Lucent winmodem is working with
a module I got from the internet (ltmod.o). 32Mb is a little bit on the
low side ,I think mine is underpowered in that area too, But then again
I'm a developer of medical image manipulation programs and I'm used to
lots of ram. To give a better answer, when I boot my laptop with Linux
(dual boot) using helix gnome (windowmanager sawfish), it's using 24MB
of the ram. Then the videocard is using 4MB, that is together 28 MB, so
you would have 4Mb of free ram. Don't forget that the recommended
minimum ram for windows98 is also 64 Mb, and that is a toy OS IMHO.
I've also a 6GB harddisk, my configuration looks like this:
2 GB windows 98
2 GB linux
2 GB fat16 partition for data, recognized both by windows98 and Linux
regards,
M.Geerlings
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: How to use 3Com ISA Ethernet Card
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 16:09:54 +0200
Andrew Werden wrote:
>
> I've just loaded Redhat 6.2 on an old Gateway 166 previously running NT 4.0.
> Linux does recognize the 3Com ISA Etherlink III card (model 3C509B-TPO). It
> neither starts the ethernet adaptor, nor recognizes any interrupts for it.
>
> Any idea how I can get my network card working?
>
> /Andrew
first thing to do is to get the 3c509 out of the PnP mode.
3com has 2 installation diskettes on their site. boot from your windows
bootdisk and use the second 3com install disk to run 3c5x9cfg.exe. make
sure you disable pnp and reboot. first write down the IRQ and IO
settings!
second thing to do is to setup your internet-settings in RH. i don't
remember what the programme is called, but it's that handy config tool
that comes with RedHat. (what's it called again?)
remember to fill in the io-adress like this: io=0x300 (substitute 300
with the actual io. IRQ is optional as you will see.
if you filled it al in correctly, you should be able to ping your
localhost (no response? NiC is not properly installed, check the io).
good luck!
Niels
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hotel Balderdash)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: How to use 3Com ISA Ethernet Card
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 14:48:17 GMT
# modprobe 3c509
# vi /etc/conf.modules
alias eth0 3c509
:wq
# ifup eth0
# ifconfig -a
HB
On Fri, 22 Sep 2000 13:26:33 GMT, "Andrew Werden"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I've just loaded Redhat 6.2 on an old Gateway 166 previously running NT 4.0.
>Linux does recognize the 3Com ISA Etherlink III card (model 3C509B-TPO). It
>neither starts the ethernet adaptor, nor recognizes any interrupts for it.
>
>Any idea how I can get my network card working?
>
>/Andrew
>
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From: Larry Irons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: 2 SCSI cards in one machine
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 08:53:05 -0600
I have a Linux computer running Caldera OpenLinux 2.3. It has been
running fine for over a year with one Adaptec 2940 SCSI card with 5 SCSI
hard drives attached. We have added a 2nd Adaptec 2930 SCSI card with a
SCSI 8mm tape drive. At boot the BIOS for both drives is recognized as
well as all of the devices. One Hard drive SCSI card is on irq 11 and
the tape SCSI card is on irq 5. There are no device conflicts for irqs.
There are no device conflicts for i/o ports.
Linux does not see the 2nd SCSI controller, but it sees the first one. I
do a "dmesg" and there is no mention of the second controller.
There are no additional LILO boot parms for the Adaptec aic78xx driver
regarding irqs and i/o ports. Currently the SCSI driver for the
controller is being loaded as a module. Is there anything that I can do
to get the 2nd controller to be recognized by the kernel?
Larry
--
Larry Irons
Senior Geophysicist
Tricon Geophysics Inc.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Adam Short" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CMI8330 - sndconfig won't configure
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 16:04:46 +0100
sndconfig doesn't want to set up my CMI8330 chipset, anyone any ideas? The
error I'm getting refers to "ad1816.o" or something similar (sorry, I'm at
work and not at the relevant computer at the moment. Just thought I'd try a
quick enquiry between hectic moments.
No matter what I do sndconfig just sits there and tells me that something is
already in use (to do with the file mentioned above). Even if I remove all
the sound drivers using modprobe, it still won't do anything useful. I did
have an OSS commercial driver for it but I lost the licence file. I saw the
option in sndconfig and thought I'd have a go. Guess I thought wrong.
Any help appreciated
Adam
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Palazon Gonzalez Vicente)
Subject: svgalib & ati rage fury
Date: 22 Sep 2000 13:52:50 GMT
Somebody knows how to make run an ati rage fury with svgalib?
hi bye!
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From: Gary Trachier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: LinuxPPC, Formac ProFormance 3, SGI 1600SW flat panel
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 11:11:51 -0400
Hi all,
I recently purchased a SGI 1600SW flat panel display and Formac
ProFormance 3 graphics card for my Mac G3. In addition to running MacOS
I often run LinuxPPC 2000. �Do you have information about how to
set up this combination of video card and display to run. �I also use
the XFree86 X-window server under LinuxPPC.
Thank you for any suggestions.
-Gary
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From: Garry Knight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Mouse right-click on desktop: how to modify pop-up menu?
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 15:54:39 +0100
On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Scott Rockstad wrote:
>Zane wrote:
>>
>> Scott Rockstad wrote:
>>
>> > Hi all! Problem: In Linux-Mandrake 7.1 running KDE, when I right-click
>> > on the desktop and the pop-up menu is displayed, the only option under
>> > New is Folder.
>> The old 6.2 and 7.0 menus are active in 7.1
>Hey, thanks Zane! I did manage to find that little trick a little while
>ago.
Here's another trick. Copy everything from /etc/skel/.kde/Templates into your
~/.kde/Templates folder, then make sure you own the files by running a console
and entering the following:
chown myname.myname ~/.kde/Templates/*
substituting your user name for "myname" in the above, and you should find a few
more options on your desktop rignt-click menu.
--
Garry Knight
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From: "Eugene Zaichkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problem with ethernet card 3Com 3C509B
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 21:01:00 +0600
ifconfig shows, that everything is o'key - the card is identified by the
system and adress is assing to this card:
eth0: Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:20:AF:C8:E1:6F inet addr:192.168.12.127
Bcast:192.168.12.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST
MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX
packets:11 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 coll:0 Interrupt:10 Base
address:0x300
But nothing arrives, if I try to ping some computer from this network. Ping
writes, that all packages are lost and, besides, the counter of TX packets
increases.
What has happened?
P.S. I have Slackware Linux. The kernel version is 2.0.34
P.P.S My routing table is:
Destination | Gateway | Genmask | Flags | Mss | Window | irtt | Iface
192.168.12.0 | 0.0.0.0 | 255.255.255.0 | U | 1500 | 0 | 0 | eth0
127.0.0.0 | 0.0.0.0 | 255.0.0.0 | U | 3584 | 0 | 0 | lo
0.0.0.0 | 192.168.12.1 | 0.0.0.0 | UG | 1500 | 0 | 0 | eth0
P.P.P.S. My ethernet cable is good.
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jean=2DSt=E9phane?= Lebrun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Kernel'compilation
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 17:25:21 +0200
Hello,
I installed the Mandrake 7.0, and I want to recompil the kernel for use
the second processor and the soundblaster 64 AWE.
I'm logged as root,
cd /usr/src/linux
make menuconfig
make dep
make mrproper
make bzImage (14 minutes)
make modules (45 minutes)
make modules_install
make bzlilo (=> creation of /vmlinuz, check in /etc/lilo.conf
that image=/vmlinuz)
make bzdisk (=> cr�ation de la disquette de boot)
reboot
Then, it doesn't work at all since 2 days. And now, I don't know what I
can do.
If you want other informations, explain to me how to get them because
I'm a newbie.
If someone can help me, thanks.
Best regards
Jean-St�phane Lebrun
/*
* Hardware
*/
bi pentium pro 200 MHz, 128 Mo
+ PCI cards :
- Adaptec 2940 UW :
. on Ultra Wide connector : ID 0 and 1 for 2 hard drives
. on Wide connector : ID 5 and 6 for a CDROM and a burner
- Matrox Mystique 4 Mo
+ ISA cards :
- Soundblaster 64 AWE
- Adaptec 1505 (for a Agfa scanner)
- Controler card for a second parallel port.
/*
* Error messages when booting from the floppy
*/
...
scsi: 0 hosts.
scsi: detected total.
md.c: sizeof(mdp_super_t) = 4096
Partition check
autodetecting RAID arrays
autorun ...
... autorun DONE.
request_module[block_major_8]: Root fs not mounted
VFS: cannot open root device 08:07
Kernel panic: VFS : Unable to mount root fs on 08:07
/*
* Error messages when booting from the hard drive
*/
...
scsi: 0 hosts.
scsi: detected total.
md.c: sizeof(mdp_super_t) = 4096
Partition check
RAMDisk: compressed image found at block 0
autodetecting RAID arrays
autorun ...
... autorun DONE.
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem)
Loading aic7xxx module
/lib/aic7xxx.o: kernel_module version mismatch
/lib/aic7xxx.o was compiled for kernel version 2.2.14-1mdklinus
while this kernel is version 2.2.14-15mdk
autodetecting RAID arrays
autorun ...
... autorun DONE.
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k block_major_8, errno = 2
VFS: cannot open root device 08:07
Kernel panic: VFS : Unable to mount root fs on 08:07
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From: nobody <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: 2 SCSI cards in one machine
Date: 22 Sep 2000 08:59:36 -0700
Larry Irons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have a Linux computer running Caldera OpenLinux 2.3. It has been
> running fine for over a year with one Adaptec 2940 SCSI card with 5 SCSI
> hard drives attached. We have added a 2nd Adaptec 2930 SCSI card with a
> SCSI 8mm tape drive. At boot the BIOS for both drives is recognized as
> well as all of the devices. One Hard drive SCSI card is on irq 11 and
> the tape SCSI card is on irq 5. There are no device conflicts for irqs.
> There are no device conflicts for i/o ports.
>
> Linux does not see the 2nd SCSI controller, but it sees the first one. I
...<snip>...
I've had 2 SCSI controllers on one machine in the past, but they were
from different companies (Buslogic and Adaptec), and one was an ISA
card, the other a PCI card. Because I was loading different low level
drivers, I was able to pass parameters to the 2nd driver in the insmod
call to tell it where the 2nd card was. The 2nd card was only used as
a generic device (for a scanner) and invoked as /dev/sgd when I did a
scan using SANE.
Hope that helps.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: ESS 1869 Drivers
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 15:51:57 GMT
Hey I hope someone can help me. I have a ESS 1869 sound card and i need
linux drivers for it, (yes i have checked the manufacturers web site).
I read in another usenet discussion that someone used a SB16 ESS aware
linux driver for his ESS 1869 and that worked. Where can i get a SB16
ESS aware linux driver?
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From: Thomas Wallutis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problem with ethernet card 3Com 3C509B
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 18:11:56 +0200
Hello Eugene,
Eugene Zaichkin wrote:
> ifconfig shows, that everything is o'key - the card is identified by the
> system and adress is assing to this card:
>
> eth0: Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:20:AF:C8:E1:6F inet
addr:192.168.12.127
> Bcast:192.168.12.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST
> MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX
> packets:11 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 coll:0 Interrupt:10
Base
> address:0x300
>
> But nothing arrives, if I try to ping some computer from this network.
Ping
> writes, that all packages are lost and, besides, the counter of TX packets
> increases.
>
> What has happened?
do you use the PnP version ? Im using the same card and it didnt work in
PnP mode. Now i use fix IRQ and IO address and it works fine !
Greetings
Thomas
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From: "Simon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: How to use 3Com ISA Ethernet Card
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 16:24:00 GMT
Also make sure it's not set to Autodetect media type..
Simon
"Andrew Werden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:d6Jy5.7061$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I've just loaded Redhat 6.2 on an old Gateway 166 previously running NT
4.0.
> Linux does recognize the 3Com ISA Etherlink III card (model 3C509B-TPO).
It
> neither starts the ethernet adaptor, nor recognizes any interrupts for it.
>
> Any idea how I can get my network card working?
>
> /Andrew
>
>
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From: "Robert L. Klungle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: esd and no dsp
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 16:27:02 GMT
Has anyone had any experience with the Intel AC97 codec (mother board
built-in):
When ever I start esd, I get the message "/dev/dsp: dno such device".
The lspci -n and lspci -vv show there is an Intel AC97 codec installed
and responding.
No audio capability yet.
Everything seems to be built in the kernel (make xconfig) for audio.
Been messing with this for 2 months now and getting frustrated.
cheers...bob
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From: Andrey Vlasov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Lexmark 5700 under linux
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 09:28:49 -0700
Hi Dan,
did you visit next URL?
http://linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=62016
Andrey
Dan wrote:
> Has anyone gotten this printer to work in linux? (a Lexmark 5000 or 7000
> would be the same).
>
> I don't know anything about the printing system and have read all I can
> find, but still can't do anything. Can someone help me setup and install my
> printer?
>
> Thanks!
>
> -Dan
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From: Andrey Vlasov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Xeon and Red Hat Linux 6.2
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 09:34:20 -0700
Hi there,
just go int /proc directory and check CPU info. If you will not find
information
about cache (it will reported as 0) it will mean that system did not
recognize it.
If it will not equal 0MB or 0KB it will mean that sysinfo misreport
information
about cache on Xenon.
Andrey
Ernst du Plooy wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> We recently bought a Compaq computer with 4 x Xeon 700/2M processors and
> 2GB RAM installed. I configured Red Hat Linux 6.2 and everything is
> working fine except that the System Info tool under GNOME utilities
> reports all 4 processors, but with no cache.
>
> I?m not sure if Linux doesn?t pick up the 2M cache per processor or
> weather the System Info tool reports the wrong amount of cache.
>
> Anyone know how to check/fix this?
>
> Thanks
> Ernst
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Kernel'compilation
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 17:04:04 +0100
Reply-To: no_replyto@oursite
This message has been posted by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Ewart)
On Fri, 22 Sep 2000 17:25:21 +0200, Jean-St�phane Lebrun
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>I installed the Mandrake 7.0, and I want to recompil the kernel for use
>the second processor and the soundblaster 64 AWE.
>I'm logged as root,
>cd /usr/src/linux
>make menuconfig
>make dep
>make mrproper
That's wrong - "make mrproper" will, amongst other things, remove
".config", which contains all your configuration information that you
configured during "make menuconfig"!
Try "make clean" here instead.
>make bzImage (14 minutes)
>make modules (45 minutes)
>make modules_install
>make bzlilo (=> creation of /vmlinuz, check in /etc/lilo.conf
>that image=/vmlinuz)
>make bzdisk (=> cr�ation de la disquette de boot)
>reboot
Dave.
--
Dave Ewart
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Computing Manager
ICRF Cancer Epidemiology Unit, Oxford UK
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From: Andrey Vlasov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HP Colorado
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 09:43:36 -0700
Hi there,
first question which I'd like to ask "Do you able to use drive at all in
SuSE 6.4?"
if yes, I guess that they could change default block size for tape
drive.
You can figure out block size with dd command:
dd if=/dev/nst0 of=/tmp/file
it should report block size.
But I warned by "device busy" message. It seems to me that system
do not getting access to tapedrive. As you been using this drive on this
computer I exclude possibility of hardware conflict. I am sorry but
I never used SuSE. In Redhat I'd check that st.o module compiled
and loaded or compiled into kernel.
NOTE: Just for case I'd check BIOS PnP OS option and if it "on" I would
disable it. In most case it is source of "device busy" but can not say
it
about tapedrive.
Andrey
Agust� Vil� i Armengou wrote:
> Hi all.
> I have been using HP Colorado 8MB drives with SuSE 6.3 without major
> problems.
> Now, I try to use this tapes with SuSE 6.4 and I can't.
> The OS detects the tape, but when I try to use it, it says that the
> device is busy.
> SuSE pretends to charge me 180$ per hour to solve this problem.
> Anybody can help me, please ?
> Many thanks in advance.
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From: John Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Kernel'compilation
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 13:04:08 -0400
Jean-St=E9phane Lebrun wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I installed the Mandrake 7.0, and I want to recompil the kernel for use=
> the second processor and the soundblaster 64 AWE.
> I'm logged as root,
> cd /usr/src/linux
> make menuconfig
> make dep
> make mrproper
> make bzImage (14 minutes)
> make modules (45 minutes)
> make modules_install
> make bzlilo (=3D> creation of /vmlinuz, check in /etc/lilo.conf
> that image=3D/vmlinuz)
> make bzdisk (=3D> cr=E9ation de la disquette de boot)
> reboot
>
> Then, it doesn't work at all since 2 days. And now, I don't know what I=
> can do.
> If you want other informations, explain to me how to get them because
> I'm a newbie.
> If someone can help me, thanks.
>
> Best regards
>
> Jean-St=E9phane Lebrun
>
> /*
> * Hardware
> */
> bi pentium pro 200 MHz, 128 Mo
> + PCI cards :
> - Adaptec 2940 UW :
> . on Ultra Wide connector : ID 0 and 1 for 2 hard drives
> . on Wide connector : ID 5 and 6 for a CDROM and a burner
> - Matrox Mystique 4 Mo
> + ISA cards :
> - Soundblaster 64 AWE
> - Adaptec 1505 (for a Agfa scanner)
> - Controler card for a second parallel port.
>
> /*
> * Error messages when booting from the floppy
> */
> ...
> scsi: 0 hosts.
> scsi: detected total.
> md.c: sizeof(mdp_super_t) =3D 4096
> Partition check
> autodetecting RAID arrays
> autorun ...
> ... autorun DONE.
> request_module[block_major_8]: Root fs not mounted
> VFS: cannot open root device 08:07
> Kernel panic: VFS : Unable to mount root fs on 08:07
>
> /*
> * Error messages when booting from the hard drive
> */
> ...
> scsi: 0 hosts.
> scsi: detected total.
> md.c: sizeof(mdp_super_t) =3D 4096
> Partition check
> RAMDisk: compressed image found at block 0
> autodetecting RAID arrays
> autorun ...
> ... autorun DONE.
> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem)
> Loading aic7xxx module
> /lib/aic7xxx.o: kernel_module version mismatch
> /lib/aic7xxx.o was compiled for kernel version 2.2.14-1mdklinus=
> while this kernel is version 2.2.14-15mdk
> autodetecting RAID arrays
> autorun ...
> ... autorun DONE.
> kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k block_major_8, errno =3D 2
> VFS: cannot open root device 08:07
> Kernel panic: VFS : Unable to mount root fs on 08:07
The problem is that the kernel can't load the aic7xxx module and therefor=
e
can't access your SCSI disk. I usually compile any disk drivers into the
kernel instead of compiling them as modules. So when you do a 'make
menuconfig', change the option for aic7xxx support to "Yes" instead of
module. Also, do a 'make clean' instead of 'make mrproper'.
John
--
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (personal) Newport News, VA 23606
(757) 873-5920 (voice) (757) 873-5924 (fax)
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