Jeff Vian wrote: >> I just upgraded a SCSI only machine (Asus P2B-LS) to FC-2, >> and found the provided kernel did not run - >> I got a kernel panic with disk not found. > Don't blame the kernel panic on lack of support for your board. The scsi > bios gets the drive and adapter available for booting. Only during the > kernel load and configuration does the driver come into play. I don't blame the kernel panic on "lack of support for my board". All the kernels that I have used have supported the aic7xxx driver. My complaint is that the kernel ported with FC-2 did not invoke this driver. > The "disk not found" error may be due to not getting the aic7xxx driver > loaded since the 2.5.7 version would have been in use when you did the > upgrade. It also may be a result if an incomplete or failed mkinitrd > during the upgrade. I'm not sure where you get 2.5.7, or what it refers to. Actually I was running kernel 2.6.7 under FC-1 when I upgraded. > What errors do you get? You said a kernel panic and you can go back to > the old kernel you used in FC1 so I assume that grub is working and it > is just dying on the kernel load. I also would hazard a guess that this > is a version/module conflict since you were running 2.6.7 in FC1 and > when you did an upgrade to FC2 you went to 2.6.5 as the base kernel. Why would that cause a conflict? I had about 10 kernels to choose from (and still do) from 2.4.19 to 2.6.7 and all of them worked and still work perfectly. > Try yum update and see if you can get everything consistent for FC2. It > sounds like some of the stuff for FC1 is still interfering with the FC2 > install as a result of the upgrade and not a clean install. I have run yum update and the kernel still crashes. As I said, it doesn't worry me as I prefer to compile my own kernel anyway. [I don't understand the attachment people have to the kernel supplied with a distribution.] However, it would have been fairly disastrous if I had installed instead of upgrading from FC-1 to FC-2. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
