hi, i'm new to the list.
i have an Intel server with an NCR53C810 and two NCR53C896 SCSI
controllers that i'm trying to load up with RedHat 6.0. the only drive on
the system is attached via an SCA backplane to one of the NCR53C896
controllers.
RH6.0 installs without incident from the CD-ROM, and i can boot it. that
is, until i try to install a new kernel. i've tried this with 2.2.10 and
2.2.11, but both fail to detect the disk or backplane attached to the
NCR53C896. but what's worse is somehow, this also makes the disk
unbootable -- if i try to switch back to the 2.2.5-15 kernel, it also
fails to mount the root partition, and i have to re-install from CD-ROM.
i've tried this with a 9.1G cheetah and a 4.2G barracuda drive. i've
tried installing from the RH5.2 CD-ROM, but it claims the drive's
partition is corrupt, and loops trying to fix it.
can anyone provide some idea of where to go from here? is this a known
issue? are there boot options that can help?
thanks for any advice.
- Chuck Lever
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