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On 04-Feb-2002 at 10:29:24 Pete Hatton wrote:
this out. It was decided to simply start from scratch and use rh7.2. The system is currently being rebuilt. However, I was wondering if anyone had any other ideas as to what I could have tried to get the thing going? The server is a Compaq DL360, with a single scsi disk (using compaq smart array).The first being it doesn't update lilo.conf and removes the old kernel - result it can't boot.
Yes, I noticed that installing a new kernel didn't run lilo. I usually run it after changing the kernel or lilo itself (obviously). In this case I ran lilo anyway.
Also as I a SCSI setup, I find I have to use mkinitrd on the kernel, so the kernel can load the scsi drivers, other I think (IIRC) you get can't mount the root system, and a panic.
Ah, now you may have something there. The 'cpqarray' module has to be loaded to access the disk. However, I haven't used mkinitrd before - didn't in this case either, I assumed the new kernel would install any initrd img file as required. Admittedly I didn't check this though! The modules.conf does contain an alias name for cpqarray, so I assumed that it would be automatically loaded as needed. Before getting too far with the rh72 installation, I may see about upgrading the kernel again and seeing if the img file changes. John. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ John Horne, University of Plymouth, UK Tel: +44 (0)1752 233914 E-mail: jhorne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx PGP key available from public key servers -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.