Re: Red Hat nash problem

I must preface by thank you and everyone else who has spent so much time helping me figure out this bizarre problem.

When you say "I can't boot from the single processor kernel" what
are you telling me?

When Fedora was installed and I restarted the machine, grub showed two kernels, a single kernel and a multi-processor kernel. The issue of the machine hanging while loading the aic7xxx module happens with both kernels.

Can you disable all but one processor in the BIOS.

I don't know.

Is a single
processor kernel on the hard disk and in the grub selection menu.

yes

Are you seeing the graphical boot screen or the old style
text display with a the green OK messages.  In text mode
it can be easier to see errors.

I see a graphical grub allowing me to up or down arrow to select which kernel to boot (or I can push one of several different keys to add additional options.)

Can you boot to any of these initstates?

    #   1 - Single user mode
    #   2 - Multiuser, without NFS (The same as 3,
	if you do not have networking)
    #   3 - Full multiuser mode
    #   5 - X11

I don't know. The only thing I have been able to boot to is the rescue mode using the 1st installation disk.

Do they act differently when you try each?

Can you use the rescue disk and install (rpm -i) kernel-2.6.8-1.521
Do not install a smp kernel at this time.

I have not done that. Does it simply install/compile another kernel? Is it already on the disk?

In rescue mode can you comment out the fstab lines
for your SCSI RAID files system and if so does the box boot.

You are beginning to get way outside of my area of expertise. I don't even know what fstab is but I would love to know. Keep in mind that I cannot exclude the SCSI RAID device(s) because that is where my hard drives are.

Thanks again for your support.
Jeremy