I have no way to do this. I using the "dd" option during initial install
and using
the 24p2721 driver found on IBM's support site. The install didn't have any
problem.
I found a new driver 24p2811 released one week ago, anybody try this ?
Please advice.
At 02:42 PM 01/02/02 +0000, you wrote:
>I'm not speaking for IBM here, and have not tried the new ServeRAID
>driver myself, but it sounds like you have an init ramdisk problem, or
>better said forgot to either create one, or if you did forgot to define
>it in your lilo.conf
>
>If I understand you correctly, your root filesystem is on a disk
>connected to the ServeRAID adapter, and you have the ServeRAID driver
>compiled as a module. For linux to be able to access the driver during
>boot you will have to create an Init ramdisk (using mkinitrd), add a
>init= line to /etc/lilo.conf and run lilo.
>
>If you don't want to create a init ramdisk, compile the driver into the
>kernel instead.
>
>On 02 Feb 2001 21:37:20 +0800, Almond Wong wrote:
>
> > Hi all.
> >
> > I just installing an IBM Netfinity 5500 with Serveraid 4L. I downloaded
> the
> > driver from IBM and upgraded the 4L firmware to 4.50. The installation
> > completed smoothly w/o error.
> >
> > But upon rebooting, the following error messages appeared, and the machine
> > is hanged up.
> >
> > Kmod:failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k block-major-8, errno = 2
> > VFS:Cannot open root device 08:01
> > Kernel panic:VF:Unable to mount root fs on 08:01
> >
> > The machine has a build in Adaptec Ultra 160 and only connected with an
> > external tape drive.
> >
> > Please give me some hints or comment.
> >
> > Have a nice weekend.
> >
> >
> > Best Regards,
> >
> > Almond Wong
> > Tel:91836223
> >
> >
> >
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