What does Redhat do with their set up? sheesh...I love the polish but what is diffrent in the kernel set up proccess from debian to redhat?
I am getting a new kernel panic now after I made the root=/dev/hda1 change
not I get:
warning: unable to open initial console. kernel panic: no init found. try passing "init=" option to kernel
I changed to lilo hoping I was just Grub but it is not...it is something with how RH sets up the system that I am not privy to.
here is my lilo.conf:
prompt
timeout=50
default=linux
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
message=/boot/message
linear
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-8
label=linux
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.20-8.img
read-only
append="hdc=ide-scsi root=LABEL=/"
image=/boot/vmlinuz2.4.20-ck
label=linux-ck
read-only
append="hdc=ide-scsi root=/dev/hda1"
does it have to do with the initrd? could some one explain to me what it is that the initial ramdisk does? and why I need one if I do.
also, "mkinitrd /boot/initrd2.4.20-ck.img linux-2.4.20" as I saw above told me something about linux-2.4.20/<blah>/<blah>/ is not a directory.
Jeremy, there's a good chance you need a ramdisk to store your SCSI module. By the looks of things anyway. The ramdisk basically supplies modules that need to be loaded BEFORE mounting disks etc. So, even if your SCSI module is included on one of your partitions, The kernel can't get to is because it can't mount the partition, because the SCSI module isn't loaded.
IE the driver it needs to mount the SCSI disk insn't available to it till AFTER the mount. Catch 22.
Hope this is what you're looking for.
Regards, Ed.
-- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
