I'm not speaking for IBM here, and have not tried the new ServeRAID
driver myself, but it sounds like you have an init ramdisk problem, or
better said forgot to either create one, or if you did forgot to define
it in your lilo.conf
If I understand you correctly, your root filesystem is on a disk
connected to the ServeRAID adapter, and you have the ServeRAID driver
compiled as a module. For linux to be able to access the driver during
boot you will have to create an Init ramdisk (using mkinitrd), add a
init= line to /etc/lilo.conf and run lilo.
If you don't want to create a init ramdisk, compile the driver into the
kernel instead.
On 02 Feb 2001 21:37:20 +0800, Almond Wong wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> I just installing an IBM Netfinity 5500 with Serveraid 4L. I downloaded the
> driver from IBM and upgraded the 4L firmware to 4.50. The installation
> completed smoothly w/o error.
>
> But upon rebooting, the following error messages appeared, and the machine
> is hanged up.
>
> Kmod:failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k block-major-8, errno = 2
> VFS:Cannot open root device 08:01
> Kernel panic:VF:Unable to mount root fs on 08:01
>
> The machine has a build in Adaptec Ultra 160 and only connected with an
> external tape drive.
>
> Please give me some hints or comment.
>
> Have a nice weekend.
>
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Almond Wong
> Tel:91836223
>
>
>
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