Red Hat 8 Install Prob
Have a SCSI CD with a non-bootable SCSI Tekram 315U card which forces me to use a floppy boot diskette to install. Tekram provides a boot.img for Red Hat 7 but not 8.
Tried the img for Red Hat 7 anyway and was greeted with "invalid or corrupt kernal image" at the boot loader prompt. No joy with boot.img file on Red Hat CD1 either. Am I dead in the water before even starting? I was hoping to get at least a little further before rendering a final decision :) |
I don't really get you, why aren't you using the boot.img for red hat 8 on the red hat disk?
Find the image file you need, rawrite it then restart and boot it.... What is the point in using an odler one? Or am i completely not reading your questions right :p Garry :D |
The boot.img for Red Hat 8 was tried ... all I get is a blinking cursor.
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HI I have tried installing R.H. 8 as well both from CD and FLoppy and all I get is a blinking cursor as well. I have searched onm a lot of forums and I have come across others with a similar prob but no one as been able to help me yet. So if I find out what it is I will let you know.
Other than that I can't help you much at the mo apart from letting you know yhat your not the only one. |
Why would the manufacturer of a *non-bootable* scsi card bother to create a special boot.img floppy file for Red Hat when Red Hat provides one?
Possible answer: when the scsi card services the CD-ROM drive the boot.img file needs to contain scsi drivers in order for Red Hat to detect the presence of the drive and disk 1 before proceeding. Since Red Hat *didn't* detect the CD drive I assumed this is why I got a blinking cursor and nothing else using the Red Hat provided boot.img file. Simply put, Red Hat didn't know what to do. However, Red Hat *did* detect the CD Drive when using the card manufacturer's Red Hat 7 boot.img file (they haven't provided one for version 8 yet), but because I was attempting to install Red Hat 8 I got the corruption error. I ended up temporarily replacing the scsi CD-ROM with a friend's bootable IDE CD-ROM and lo and behold, away we go! Install successful. Keep in mind that floppy's are notoriously bad. You might need to rawrite to a few before getting one to work, and try to avoid scsi cd-rom drives ... Red Hat doesn't like it. |
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