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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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