Red Hat 8 Install Prob

arcturus · 10-19-2002, 09:30 PM

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

GT I.N.C · 10-19-2002, 11:59 PM

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

Garry

arcturus · 10-20-2002, 10:27 AM

The boot.img for Red Hat 8 was tried ... all I get is a blinking cursor.

taz · 10-22-2002, 04:56 PM

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.

arcturus · 10-22-2002, 05:38 PM

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.