On Wed, 16 Dec 1998 05:56:01 +0200, Tapio Lehtonen wrote:
> Problem: Dell Precision 410 has two SCSI adapters on the motherboard,
> Adaptec 7880 with CD-ROM connected and Adaptec 7890 with the hard
> drive. Now installing Debian 2.0 fails. It sees the CD-ROM but not the
> hard drive.
>
> It seems this is because the Debian 2.0 Rescue disk has kernel 2.0.34,
> and this kernel does not support Adaptec 7890. I looked at 2.0.36
> kernel, which seems to have this support. I compiled a new kernel with
> 2.0.36 sources, and got boot-floppies Debian package, but have not
> figured out how to get this new kernel on a Rescue Disk.
>
> Does some kind soul already have a Rescue disk with support for
> Adapted 7890? Or can someone give me some advice on making the disk.
I don't know about the boot-floppies route. I read the docs, but that
seemed more geared towards a distirbution release than an individual
disk.
However, I did successfully replace the kernel on a bootdisk yesterday,
so maybe my experience can benefit you. It was actually quite simple.
What I did was to select the kernel options good ol' Bruce listed in
the readme on the rescue disk statically (initrd, ramdisk, loop, msdos,
fat, minix, elf, ext2fs, procfs). Then I added major categories of
features statically (scsi), with individual options in those categories
(ai7xxx) as modules. I also used cpu type 386 to reduce the size of
the kernel somewhat, although that is probably overkill. Categories
which I didn't need, like isdn or ethernet, I excluded to save space,
again probably overkill.
Then I modified the Makefile as follows before compiling:
ROOT_DEV = /dev/ramdisk
RAMDISK = -DRAMDISK=1440
Then I did a make dep, make clean, and finally a make bzImage.
Finally, I copied /usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.36/arch/i386/boot/bzImage
to /floppy/vmlinuz (assuming you have the rescue disk mounted on
/floppy). That's it.
If you have any problems let me know and I'll make you a boot disk
image.
--
David
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