On Fri, 2003-06-06 at 22:58, Jeremy Petzold wrote: > 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? > > Jeremy >
you implicetly figured outthe problem for me :-) I was using a monolithic kernel (well mostly) the scsi stuff was compiled in and so did not need the hdc = ide-scsi I just commented out the entire apprnd line and it booted like magic. now I just need to get all the USB filesystems working so I get rid of the boot errors.....and need to get the cool automounting working again with my kernel (do I need to compile in the automounting inthe kernel?) thanks for all the help everyone! Jeremy -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
