[ Sunday, October 31, 1999 ] Sean Roe wrote:
> Okay I am really new at this, so please forgive me:
>
> I just run this command from the command prompt:
> mkinitrd --with=dac960 ?
>
> And then modify the lilo.conf to have the same line?
Ya caught me... I don't use mkinitrd's myself and if RH didn't come
with them I'd probably know zero about them :) They're a nice way of
getting support needed through modules into place early on enough for
the booting procedures...
It looks like the command is
mkinitrd --with=dac960 /boot/initrd 2.2.5-15
(just going by the man page) with the last param being the kernel
version as RH defines it (uname -r to check) and that should create
a file /boot/initrd-2.2.5-15.img which you'll then edit the lilo.conf
stanza to include...
if the initrd already exists you may need to specify a -f on the mkinitrd
line (or simply rename the in-place initrd in case you want to use
it later)
> Also is there any settings I have to change in the BIOS to make it boot
> from it?
>
> Currently the system boots but when it get to the point where the OS
> is supposed to load, I just get a blank screen and a flshing cursor.
> I also noticed that one of the SCSI bioses (not the Mylex the other
> one...symbios I think it says) that it finds no bootable devices.
Many scsi bios's force you to pull up their config util (hit whatever
key they ask while booting) and switch drive states to bootable...
Make sure your lilo.conf boot= line is writing to the MBR on the RAID too.
There may be other tricks to getting it to boot that I don't know about,
so I'll defer to the rest of linux-raid here :)
James
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Miscellaneous Engineer --- IBM Netfinity Performance Development
