THE MACHINE
PIII 550
IDE boot disk
SCSI swap and all other partitions
Adaptec 29160 controller using the aic7xxx module
THE GOAL
Upgrade the kernel from 2.2.5-15 to 2.2.16-3 - still loading the
SCSI driver as a module as I do now
THE PROCESS SO FAR:
I went the .rpm route, as I usually do, so I downloaded and
applied these packages with the "rpm -ivh" command:
kernel-2.2.16-3.i386.rpm
kernel-2.2.16-3.i586.rpm
kernel-headers-2.2.16-3.i386.rpm
kernel-ibcs-2.2.16-3.i386.rpm
kernel-pcmcia-cs-2.2.16-3.i386.rpm
kernel-source-2.2.16-3.i386.rpm
Following the mantra of:
http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/howto/kernel-upgrade/kernel-upgrade.html
I created a RAM disk for the new kernel with this command
mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.2.16-3.img 2.2.16-3
and inserted this properly into lilo.conf and executed lilo to
install correctly.
THE PROBLEM
At boot, the machine clearly cannot see any SCSI disks. When
swapon executes, I get a "can't locate module block-major-8" error.
This is where I get lost.
Here's the contents of my modules.conf file:
alias scsi_hostadapter aic7xxx
alias eth0 3c90x
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
pre-install pcmcia_core /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia start
Can some kind soul please give me hint on how to make this upgrade
work? I seem to remember having a similar problem when I originally moved
to 2.2.5-15, but I can't for the life of me remember what I did to make it
right.
<sigh>
MANY thanks in advance to anyone who can find time to help!
Brett Charbeneau, Network Administrator Tel: 757-259-7750
Williamsburg Regional Library FAX: 757-259-7798
7770 Croaker Road [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Williamsburg, VA 23188-7064 http://www.wrl.org
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