Re: Dell Poweredge 1300 can't boot kernel 2.0.36 (fwd)
The following was found on a message from Ossama Othman to debian-devel:
> On 16 Apr, Pete Templin wrote:
> > Although I can't stand the filesystem disorganization of RedHat, I almost
> > want to get my hands on a RedHat CD and try it on my server. I really
> > hope RedHat _can't_ boot it without a customized boot disk or something,
> > just to prove that they have a problem to solve.
>
> It'll probably work. :( You may still need to specify the amount of
> memory if they are still using an old kernel. Someone here tried a
> RedHat install on another Dell we have. It appeared to boot once we
> took care of the memory thing. Apparently RedHat doesn't load the SCSI
> drivers at boot time. Basically you specify which SCSI modules to load
> after their installation program has started, thus avoiding the boot
> time problems.
Another round won by the "bare bones" kernel approach. :-)
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Enrique Zanardi ezanardi@ull.es
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