Alpha, additional notes and a question...
Cyber Source
peter at thecybersource.com
Wed May 22 22:07:36 EDT 2002
Just wanted to cue in here and say that I experience a similar situation
on an UPGRADE. Bob Meyer and I worked on it and eventually found:
1. BIOS (Motherboard NOT scsi) played a vital role in handing the boot
process to scsi over ide
2. On the upgrade, the necessary init link/file was not passed to the
boot strap.
This was determined through various steps but the most noticeable was
when (after suspecting hardware failure of course :)) was on a fresh
install everything worked and booted fine. There are only a handful of
scsi adapter manufacturers (less than ide for sure), it's not
inconceivable to think they put all the adapter drivers on the distros.
On Wed, 2002-05-22 at 17:55, Todd Wirth wrote:
On the subject of RedHat kernel having default support for a every
SCSI adapter I disagree. We have a Dell server running RedHat 7.2,
although I wasn't involved in the upgrade to a newer kernel (Dell
provided), I know what happened through various emails between Dell
and our other IT guy. They tried 2 stock RedHat kernels that did not
work with our SCSI adapter, until finally the 3rd one did the trick.
I was about to take over the project and just compile a kernel, but
that would have voided our support w/ Dell & RedHat.
I'm not too sure about the hardware as this server (besides a
Xeon) is in a remote office, but I did see the email traffic, and
you could tell the Dell guys were stumped. ;)
-- Todd
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