Hi Greg!
Thank you very much for your help!
>mkay, is that scsi driver compiled as a module, or is it compiled into
>the kernel? you're not clear on that one. make sure you have ext3
>support compiled also. i would also try and pass root=/dev/sda [or
>whatever your drive reports as] to the kernel.
For my new (2.6.13) kernel, the aic7xxx SCSI driver is compiled into
the kernel. (The make xconfig has a check mark in the box, instead of a
"dot".) (The kernel FC4 kernel I'm running has it compiled as a module.)
Also, my new (2.6.13) kernel has ext3 and related items also compiled
into the kernel. (Since I formatted my file systems to be ext3, and knew
I'd need it, I wanted it directly in the kernel.)
Right now, I have "kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.13 ro root=LABEL=/1 rhgb quiet"
being passed to the kernel, which actually is identical to the kernel
being passed with the FC4 kernel.
ARGH!
:-)
Well, Greg, I was intending to answer your third question with what I
did, Friday night/Saturday morning...
I did place "root=/dev/sda2" (the partition of my root filesystem) in
there, and it still failed. So, I went back to grub.conf and INTENDED to
place it back to the way it was, which had "root=LABEL=/1" in the line.
As I looked at my grub.conf, to recall what I did, to answer you, I
saw the following in grub.conf: "root=/1"!
I thought... "Oh, it couldn't be..." I made it "root=LABEL=/1" and
just now shut down to boot the Linux, and tried my test kernel.
I am, at this moment, running on the test kernel!
Looking at dmesg, I'm running kernel 2.6.13, not 2.6.11, it's the one
I had been trying to get working! :-)
I am frustrated at making the silly mistake. I know I was tired...
So, I'll report: I'll watch things over the next couple of weeks,
and see whether I see anything that I determine is a possible kernel
problem. But, at the moment, I AM RUNNING MY NEW KERNEL! :-)
Thank you, Greg! You didn't exactly know and tell me what the
problem was, but as I was looking at my grub.conf file to properly reply
to you, I saw the mistake.
>as a sidenote, grub introduces major imporvements to the whole
>bootloader realm, just the shell alone is worth a look.
That's my impression! In my reading about it, I think it is quite
good. I haven't actually tested and looked at this stuff, yet, but I
will, when I get a chance!
Thank you again!
Barry
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