On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 09:27, Jeremy Conlin wrote: > > When you booted rescue mode, it would have asked you if you wanted to > > search for an installed copy of FC2. Your message suggests it found > > your > > install, and you should give the chroot command as it suggests: > > > > chroot /mnt/sysimage > > > > That gives you easy access to the files you will need. Sorry I forgot > > about this piece, so with the chroot, you will be able to use paths as > > if you had booted your system normally. > > > I did what you said and (after doing it twice to correct a typo:) ) it > was working! I was very excited to see the machine get past the > Loading aic7xxx.ko module and begin to load the OS. Unfortunately > another problem has cropped up. I get the following message: > > Checking for new hardwaremodprobe: FATAL: Error inserting aic7xxx > (/lib/modules/2.6.5-1.358smp/kernel/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx.ko): No such > device > > kernel panic: aic7xxx unrecoverable BRKADRINT > > > I don't understand why it requires the device to be loaded initially > but now it can't even find the device. Is there another step that > needs to be done to include the appropriate driver in the kernel? > > Thanks again for your help. > Jeremy Back when (a long time ago and a 2.4 series kernal) I had this form of problem which turned out to be a DMA or interrupt issue, I really don't remember. I would check this also. -- jludwig <wralphie@xxxxxxxxxxx>