[101079] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Kernel problems in RH 5.2
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jan Carlson)
Tue Nov 24 14:41:53 1998
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 14:29:52 -0500
From: Jan Carlson <janc@iname.com>
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Lloyd Sumpter wrote:
> Hello, fellow Redhat-ers!
>
> I've been running Linux since Version 0.97, but I finally decided to
> throw some money at Redhat and buy an Official Installation. After all,
> Redhat has been waving the Linux flag a lot and is largely responsible
> for its growing corporate respectability.
> Unfortunately, results were less than spectacular. Before I installed
> Redhat, I tried an older Caldera package they sent me (for free) called
> Caldera Lite. It installed and ran fine. Then I tried to install Redhat.
> The installation seemed to go smoothly - it found all my SCSI drives,
> my network card, etc. and seemed to install correctly. But when I tried to
> boot, it resulted in many general protection faults, finally locking up
> altogether. Re-installed Caldera - ran fine. Re-installed Redhat - crashed.
> Since it looked like the kernel itself ( I tried booting from a floppy-based
> kernel I had lying around and it seemed to work OK), I compiled a 2.0.33
> kernel at work and installed it, setting up lilo so that I could boot either
> kernel.
How does go when you boot from the bootable diskette it offers to create
during the install? That may work fine. If you can boot to the hard disk
using any method, you can still make an 'official' bootable diskette using
the mkbootdisk command.
My guess is that since RedHat does lots of probing to find your hardware
resources, it may have gotten one or more setting incorrectly. You may
be able to recover by making corrections in /etc/conf.modules.
While you're in there, insert a line with the word "linear" on it into
/etc/lilo.conf and be sure to run lilo again to make use of linear. Reason:
the adaptec scsi card has all kinds of CHS remapping options, which
could confuse the lilo installation. The linear option tends to bypass
a lot of these problems. I don't suggest changing any options in the
adaptec firmware though, unless you are willing to start over.
>
> Sure enough, the compiled kernel ran fine. Since I had done a "basic" kernel
> (no modules, no sound, etc.) I compiled a new one on the Redhat/2.0.33 hybrid
> and lilo'ed that in as well. Now everything works fine. But the kernel Redhat
> supplied still crashes.
>
> Has anyone else had these problems? I tried writing to the e-mail support,
> but it rejects my message for some reason (it just says "check the registration
> number..."). The only thing unusual about my setup is that I'm using "all-SCSI":
> all my hard drives and CDROM are on one Adaptec 2940UW card. It's never been a
> problem with Linux before, though. (Amusing aside: Windows 95 cannot find my
> CD-ROM - Redhat installs better than Windows!)
You have to register your copy of RedHat and get a registration number before
they accept mail from you.
By the way, Netscape 4.5 is faster than 4.0x.
--
Jan Carlson
janc@iname.com Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
Mailed with Netscape 4.5 on Red Hat Linux 5.2
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