Hello All:
I had no problem updating my two SCSI machines here at home
with the rpm version of kernel 2.2.16-3 on my RH 6.2
machines but I am having major problems with an SMP machine
that has 2 SCSI controllers. This is a generic dual p133
running now with the 2.2.14 stock kernel with RH 6.2. The
installer did fine as far as loading the stock SMP kernel
and picking up both SCSI controllers. One controller feeds
the hard drive and the other is a SCSI card that feeds a 4
bay external CDROM box with is terminated properly. Ok I do
my normal rpm -ivh kernel-2.2.16-3smp.rpm and all loads
fine. Then I do my mkinitrd image for boot and place the
appropriate lines in lilo so I can boot my new kernel or
select the old kernel with a different label in case it
fails. I also remember to run LILO each attempt at this.
Well it sure failed in boot up with a message of the sort:
SCSI device resetting id 0, resetting SCSI bus. I can't
remember the exact line as it never gets written to the logs
because it never finishes the boot and that was the only
notes I had jotted down to research this on. It does this
right before it is ready to read init. But this error runs
continuously "SCSI device failure id 0, resetting SCSI bus,
or something along that line and finally I either reset or
CTL-ALT-DEL and boot back to original kernel with no
difficulty. It is my understanding that an RPM kernel update
does not change any of the kernel config choices just
upgrades the kernel. I am thinking of building 2.2.18 on
this machine and trying that unless someone recognizes this
error and has a fix for it. I wonder if it has something to
do with the two SCSI controllers confusing the boot process
as to which is the hard disk controller and the CDrom's but
then again they boot fine with the previous stock kernel.
Anyone seen this behavior before and know a fix? Is there
some lilo entry I can use to be sure the machine is looking
for SCSI id #0 that could clear this up. Very frustrating
considering I had done my two other machines that by the way
only have "one" SCSI controller on board and they went so
smooth it almost sold me on using RPM for kernel updates.
Thanks in Advance
Eddie Strohmier
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