Ha haa.. Sorry, not laughing at you directly but it seems IBM still haven't fixed it..
Citadel had the same problem and they admitted to us that we were the first people to install Linux on some of their systems.. What you had to do was boot on the CD and use the prompt command linux=dd then it'll ask for the drivers etc..etc..etc.. I also found that if SMP wasn't installed, things would go crazy and crash but that may have been a rare case... Booting from floppy I'm not sure of. Have you tried using the ServerGuide CD? Or don't you have a CD at all???? thanks, George Vieira Systems Manager Citadel Computer Systems P/L http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 16 2002 12:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SLUG] Help with RHL-6.2 & IBM x340 "eserver" Hi Sluggers, I am trying to install an IBM eserver x330/x340 with the ServerRAID driver. I am having problems putting together a driver disk for Redhat 6.2, in spite of having "support" for the machine. I built a kickstart floppy but I do not have the drivers installed correctly (I think). The problem is, I followed some guides on the net, to modify the boot floppy initrd.img file. I added the drivers I needed, edited modinfo and pcitable and repacked the .img file. When I boot off this floppy, the ramdisk loads Ok, but I cannot seem to get the drivers to load - I get a message: "trying to insmod ips.o (Path is NULL)" or similar. I suspect it is something to do with the way I have recreated the ramdisk image. What I am asking is: 1) can someone please point me to the correct way to build a boot floppy/initrd.img file? Yes, I read the kickstart Howto, and pursued the cpio commands but I think there's something wrong with my cpio image. 2) can someone just send me a 6.2 Ramdisk initrd.img file that already has the ips.o and module for the Intel etherexpress pro 10/100 NIC? 3) a 6.2 boot floppy that will work with an x330/x340 server? thanks! rachel --------------------------------------------- This message was sent using Endymion MailMan. http://www.endymion.com/products/mailman/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
