CPQ PL1500 install
Hello guys,
I'm new to linux and trying to install RH7.1 on a compaq proliant 1500R. Since this machine doesn't seem to want to boot from CD, I had to make aboot floppy disk. I am giving the "linux text expert mem=192M" parms but it keeps on jamming on: "Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:41" System config is: Dual 166 CPUs SCSI 0=4.5Gb SCSI 5=CD No RAID, got one if needed Ram=192Mb No IDE whatsoever present Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. |
Maybe you're trying to boot on a IDE based kernel instead of a SCSI based kernel ? Way installing 7.1 ?
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7.1 is the version I had. Whould 9 be better and includes the SCSI kernels? If not what should I do to correct the problem.
Thanks. |
I downloaded RH9 and still have that: "Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:45" message.
Any clues? |
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Have a look at: http://www.redhat.com/mirrors/LDP/HO....html#BOOTROOT Did you also take a look at the hardware list on te Redhat site? Is all your hardware supported ? Hope this helps, |
By searching on the RH site I've been able to get through the first steps by specifying the parms:
linux mem=exactmap mem=0xc000000@0 0xc000000@0 stands for 192M ram It is getting to the formatting file system but hangs there. Partitionning in Disk druid seems fine. I have a NCR53c825 with 2x ST15150 4.5Gb ID:0,1 and a SCSI CDROM at ID:5 any clues? |
Howzit
The prob seems that it might br that RH is not see you SCSI apater card try making the follwing images from your RH9 distro. if u have a linux box follow these steps : 1. goto dir on cd that says images 2. cat bootdisk.img > /dev/fd0 3. cat drvblock > /dev/fd0 4. boot from the bootdisk.img disk when u get to the linux prompt type linux dd this will go through the normal install then it will prompt u to install addtional drivers incert the disk img drvblock and see if the drivers are available on this disk. 5. If not find out what adapter u have and try downloading the linux bootable drivers from that website. and try the above again. if you have a windows pc and there is no linux box available then under dosutils from linux cd there will be cmd called rawrite.exe to create the img bootdisks. Good luck chow |
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