[101093] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Kernel problems in RH 5.2
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lloyd Sumpter)
Tue Nov 24 15:36:32 1998
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Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 12:24:26 -0800 (PST)
From: Lloyd Sumpter <Lloyd.Sumpter@BCHydro.bc.ca>
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Thanks for the reply!
On 24-Nov-98 Jan Carlson wrote:
> Lloyd Sumpter wrote:
>
> 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.
>
Never made one. I have several boot floppies known to work, so I just use
those. I suppose I could do this to try to isolate Redhat's problem, but I'm
quite happy with my 2.0.33 kernel, so I'll just run with that.
> 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.
>
That's a good point. However, like I said, I have a working system now and I
don't want to mess with it.
> 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.
>
Interesting! I'll do that.
>
>
> You have to register your copy of RedHat and get a registration number before
> they accept mail from you.
Done that. Maybe I read the registration number wrong - it looks like it was
printed on with a 9-pin printer and it's pretty hard to read.
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