On Fri, 2003-06-06 at 22:33, Edward Dekkers wrote: > Jeremy Petzold wrote: > > 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. > I have my scsi module compiled in...so could the problem be just that I don't need that in the append line?
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