I created a grub configuration for my old 2.2.17 kernel and it booted. It won't run x, but that's irrelevant. I believe that this problem is related to there not being any scsi drivers compiled into the supplied kernel. However I've tried building an initrd with scsi modules in it, but the aic7xxx.o module gets unresolved references when loading. I can only assume that it is the wrong one for this kernel. The rescue kernel from the cdrom appears to have a working aic7xxx driver, so I attempted to make a boot config from that kernel and initrd. Unfortunately it launches into the install/setup scripts :( Shouldn't be surprised about that.
Went back to my 2.2.17 kernel in single user mode. Fotrunately the upgrade process provided me with a 2.4.7-10 source dir. I built a new 2.2.7-10 kernel with the scsi drivers built in. Surprisingly my old egcs compiler was still there after the upgrace and the build went without errors. BOOT...... hooya!!! It's up and running! I think RedHat has a problem with the scsi drivers in their default kernel config. I'm delighted with the new grub loader though. I was previously stuck with using a floppy to boot into linux because my disk config seems to bamboozle the bootpart tool I was uning to get to lilo. Now I've dispensed with bootpart! It's also great to be able to edit the start options at boot time. ttfn wcn Wendell Nichols wrote: > I have exactly the same problem. I upgraded my smp machine from 7.1 > to 7.2. The upgrade went without errors but the subsequent boot > failed wit the same message that this thread got started with. > My linux root partition is on a scsi drive, which I elected to convert > to ext3 during the upgrade. It appears that it is unable to mount > this partition either because it is on a scsi drive and it hasn't got > the scsi drivers loaded, or there is something wrong with the ext3 > support. > I have started the system in rescue mode and have been able to mount > all my partitions. The rescue kernlel is 2.4.7-10BOOT from the dist > cd. I uncompressed and mounted the initrd images in the /boot dir of > my root partition, and the one from the cd. The linuxrc script is a > compiled program on the cd, but it's the usual shell script in the > initrd.img file that I created with mkinitrd, as well as the one > installed via the upgrade. > I'm going to try my old kernel... If that works I'll let you know.. > wcn > _______________________________________________ Redhat-devel-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-devel-list
