On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, Edward Dekkers wrote: > I moved a redhat7.2 drive to a new machine. We went from an adaptec SCSI > adapted to symbios and now I cant get the system to boot (only a "cant find > INIT" error) > Does anyone know who to upgrade or change to symbios without doing an > install? Keeping the files on the hard drive entact is key. > Thanks, > Mike > > --- > > Mike, please don't post HTML to the list - plain text only. > > If you have access to the old PC it came out of it is (relatively) easy. > > If not, it gets a LOT harder because we would have to create a new initrd > image containing the symbios controller driver on another Linux box. > > Probably the easiest I can think of is move the Adaptec over as well, hook > the drive to it, let the system boot and make sure kudzu picks up BOTH SCSI > cards, and adjusts as necessary. You may have to tinker still with > makeinitrd I'm not exactly sure, because I don't know whether kudzu is THAT > smart. Then shut down, remove the Adaptec, hook the drive to the symbios and > all should be good. >
When I install a symbios card in a RH 7.3 system I had to recompile the kernel to include synbios support. The standard kernel didn't have support enabled. -- Gerry "The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne" Chaucer -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
