Some time back - in the 2.0 beta days - I reported a problem
booting the Win4Lin kernel on a Compaq PW 5000 running Caldera's eDesktop.
The suggestion was create a custom kernel, but the best I could do on
one box was to get Win4Lin running, but lost my IDE CD-ROM, messed up
my sound, and failed on the parport driver.
I was resigned to run it on my second platform - an IBM 365 running
dual Pentium Pro 200/256, 96 MB RAM and an Adaptec 2940UW. I had success
with that box when running an IDE boot disk plus a 4 GB U/W SCSI disk. I've
since "upgraded" to dual 4 GB U/W SCSI, eliminating the IDE disk. (I still
have an IDE CD-ROM.) I'm now encountering the same type errors as on the
Compaq. In this case, using the Netraverse SMP kernel boot fails as follows:
/linux/modules/scsi_mod.o: kernel module version mismatch
......./linux/modules/scsi_mod.o was compiled for kernel version 2.2.14
.......while this kernel is version 2.2.14w4l
/linux/modules/loop.o: kernel module version mismatch
......./linux/modules/scsi_mod.o was compiled for kernel version 2.2.14
.......while this kernel is version 2.2.14w4l
/linux/modules/aic7xxx.o: kernel module version mismatch
......./linux/modules/scsi_mod.o was compiled for kernel version 2.2.14
.......while this kernel is version 2.2.14w4l
/linux/modules/sd_mod.o: kernel module version mismatch
......./linux/modules/scsi_mod.o was compiled for kernel version 2.2.14
.......while this kernel is version 2.2.14w4l
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:02
What appears above as "......." is white obscuring information beneath.
This differs from the Compaq problem in that the compaq showed an ncr SCSI
module, not the Adaptec aic7xxx.o module shown above.
If I add the original IDE back onto this box and reinstall Caldera,
then the Netraverse Kernel for Caldera SMP will work. (Note, I've seen this
same type failure on IBM 300XL, also with Adaptec 2940UW, dual 2 GB U/W SCSI
disk and SCSI CD-ROM.)
I'd rather not go to Red Hat for my desktop Linux, as I much prefer
Caldera, because Red Hat presents its own problems. It won't properly translate
my Compaq's SCSI disk geometry, and it won't recognize my SMP configuration
on the IBM; I've got to install manually a Red Hat PPro/SMP kernel, built
an initrd image, etc.
So what's with this "boot from IDE or else" problem with the Caldera
kernel?
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