booting with Lilo problems...
 

I set up Slackware 10 on my system and cannot boot off the floppy or harddrives. I have to boot off the cd-rom, type in "adaptec.s root=/dev/sda2 noinitrd ro" I have installed this 3 times different ways with the same results. It does a kernel panic saying it cant find/read off the root partion..I believe it is not loading the drivers for the scsi card. I loaded the "adaptec" kernel, but in my /boot dir, it has an IDE 2.4.XX kernal file only. I even rebuilt the kernel with all the scsi drivers. I am using LILO, which no matter what other options I set up in that file only gives me one option, and if I hit [TAB], it shows no options available? I have used RH, Fedora 1&2, Suse and Debian, so I feel as though I have reasonable knowledge of Linux. This has me stumped...
Thanks for any thoughts, Tom

During install you select the kernel twice, once for when you boot the install process and the second time for the kernel to install into your new system. Did you select the adaptec.s kernel both times? Also when you built the kernel did you build the drivers for your adaptec card into the kernel or as modules?

The second and third times I loaded adaptec.s for the boot process and then later when it asked what kernel I wanted to use.. After I had the system up, I tried to reconfigure the kernel with the drivers, as when I checked it said I had a base ide kernel. That was perplexing. I wonder if I missed something during the install. I dont mind reloading it again cause I dont have it setup yet and the process didnt take very long. Also in my /boot dir, all 3 times it had a file for config, sysmap and vmlinuz all marked as ide 2.4.26.. Thanks for the quick reply!

Got it! I went back thru the kernel config again under KDE, looked thru all the options and noticed under "scsi low level drivers", it was setup as a module. I set it up for drivers instead and voila. I then made a bootdisk, which worked and I messed around with Lilo with several different configs to make sure it would really work, Thanks for the info, that got me in the right direction.. I am hoping to migrate 2 of my Red Hat units to Slack. I cannot believe how much faster this runs on the same hardware as RH9 and Fedora! Thanks again, Tom :)