Hi all,
Please help me. I accidentally hosed my linux upgrade and need to
reinstall from scratch. But when I tried to boot from the rescue disk,
the kernel crashed on me. I have an AHA-2842 SCSI controller. The kernel
detected it and tries to reset something. The next thing I see is a
message about dereferencing a null pointer and the standard register dump
from the kernel. The last line says: Aiee! Killing interrupt handler.
It then sits there and I have to press the reset button.
I tried building a 2.0.35 kernel and copy it into the rescue disk (which
is just a dos formated disk). The kernel now boots without problem, but
when it got to the point of mounting the root fs, I got an error message
about 'unable to open/access the root device 01:00'. I assume this is the
ramdisk? I did compile the ramdisk support into the kernel, as well as
dos fat and dosfs support, adaptec scsi driver, ppp, multi-device, and
some others that I wanted. Is there something I need to make the kernel
boot with a ramdisk? Or did I do something wrong when I copied the kernel
to the floppy? I did run rdev.sh from the mounted floppy. Maybe I did
that wrong? I should note, the kernel I built was compressed. I don't
know if the 'linux' file on the rescue disk is a compressed kernel. It is
700+k, while my kernel is 400+k.
I'll try build a 2.0.34 kernel and see if it is actually causing the
problem. Any help in this matter is greatly appreciated.
--jc
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Jimen Ching (WH6BRR) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
