[GLLUG] RedHat 7.2 installation problem

[Sean O'Malley]

It sounds like you need to redo the initrd image so you have the adaptec
driver available to the kernel so it can mount the drive.

I think the redhat site has a how-to on how to manipulate the initrd image
to add drivers or alternatively you can rebuild the kernel with the
appropriate driver (possibly)

What are you using dd for?

And what bootloader are you using?


Have you tried passing kernel arguments like
linear (or disabling this)
or
disabling the bios of the card with an option like:
disk=/dev/sda
  bios=0x80


On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, Jeff Vanderlaan wrote:

> I am having a problem installing RedHat 7.2 on an Dual Athlon 2000 machine.  The last three lines of the boot message are below:
>
> >EXT2-fs: unable to read superblock
> >isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev=09:00, iso_blknum=16, block=32
> >Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 09:00
>
> The machine is a Dual Athlon 2000, Tyan Motherboard, on-board Adaptec
> SCSI Ultra 320 controller.
>
> I have run linux dd and installed the driver (downloaded from
> Adaptec), the system goes through it's normal installation process,
> claims to complete successfully and then craps out on reboot.
>
> 8.0 installs fine, but I need 7.2 for the applications I'm trying to run.
>
> HELP!
>
> Jeff
>
> --
> Jeff Vanderlaan
> Operations Supervisor - Technology Dept.
> Lansing School District
> 517-325-6425 x 1140
> jvan at lsd.k12.mi.us
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