Re: Rescue kernel hangs after probing sjcd
Jim Smith very kindly remarked
> At 14:54 2/25/97 +0100, you wrote:
> >
> >I have a Slackware distribution running, and a RedHat distribution running.
> >The RedHat and the Debian come from the December 96 Infomagic 6-CD set.
> >I have an sbpcd=0x300,LaserMate cd-rom.
> >
> I had to give the argument: "sbpcd=0x340" at the boot prompt in order to
> have Debian recognise my cdrom at all.
Yo, and mine is sbpcd=0x300,LaserMate. When I don't tell RedHat that, it
takes 5 minutes to auto-detect it there.
My probleme here is that the kernel hangs, apparently _before_ coming to the
sbpcd testing. The last line is "MD DRIVER [...]". This is after the sjcd
driver.
I finally found the mailing-list archives, and somebody said that the rescue
disk was an MS-DOS thing, and that he managed to replace the
"anything-and-everything kernel" by a custom kernel. That's what I'll be
doing this evening (+12h from the writing of this message at 0900 MET).
I'm a mite worried about managing to get it at the starting block as the old
kernel (I imagine it has to be the same 'cause I don't suppose the
bootloader searches the Mess-DOG directory), but I think I can manage that.
That way I'll be sure I have the 2940UW support in the kernel, too.
It would be much nicer to have different boot disks for sensitive
configurations, and it would be much nicer to have everything loaded by
modules (as I said, RedHat booted out of the box with sbpcd=0x300,LaserMate
apparently without throwing the slightest poke anywhere else).
> When it boots it goes thru some
> other cdroms then comes up with "LaserMate CDROM at 0x340" E.
> Moenkenburg......."
And what does it say just before? The MD driver thing? I checked the 2.1.18
docs, and there is no mention of any MD cd-rom, so out went that option. Who
wrote it? Where does it probe / what do I have to protect ?
> Isn't all this fun?
Everything is fun when you can see
bash# id
uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups= ...
I can't (under Debian, at least). Don't make me go back to RedHat, or to my
October '94 Slackware, please !
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