Re: woody kernel upgrade woes
>Pigeon wrote:
>On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 01:34:01PM -0700, Ben Blout wrote:
>> I am struggling with a kernel upgrade with a woody box, installed from
>> 3.0r0 CD. I installed with a 2.2.20 kernel, not sure what flavor.
This
>> being the first time I did anything kernel related, I did what I
thought
>> was the simplest thing, and chose the 2.2.20 image from
>> security.debian.org, using dselect.
>>
>> After the upgrade, the box would not boot, hanging after the LILO
>> screen (Loading..........). I inserted cd #1, and at the boot: prompt
[snip]
>> Installing the latest 2.4.18 kernel image had the same result. It has
>> been suggested to me (but I am not sure) that the problem is the images
[snip]
>>
>
>You are correct - aic7xxx.o is the module you need for Adaptec 2940
>support. But you don't want it as a module - you want it built into
>the kernel if you're going to boot off it. In the kernel's config file
>(/boot/config-`uname -r`) you will find CONFIG_SCSI_AIC7XXX=y if it's
>built into the kernel; if it's only a module the y becomes an m.
>
>The alternative is to build it as a module and use an initrd. I must
>say I thought the prepackaged kernels did this as standard (I don't
>know, I've always compiled my own). Perhaps the initrd is installed
>(in /initrd) but lilo hasn't been configured to use it?
Darryl B. also suggested looking at re-running mkinitrd.
Thanks for the help - looking at all these things finally led me to the
solution. Somehow, the boot=/dev/hda line in lilo.conf had been changed
to boot=/dev/sda. I don't remember making that change, but I suppose it
is possible. Once I fixed that, the default installs of both 2.2.20 and
2.4.18 worked fine. Could the upgrade to 2.2.20 from
security.debian.org have made that change to lilo.conf?
And, my apologies that my original post appeared three times. One of
the duplicates was related to a mistake by me - no idea how the other
duplicate happened.
-Ben
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