Dual PIII boots and runs from 7.2.0 CD but after HD Inst hangs on boot
7.2.0 booted and ran fine from the CD.
I did the HD install, and there were no problems.
It says to reboot, so I try to reboot, it starts booting, the Grub screen comes up, has KNOPPIX option, but it hangs after "Booting the Kernel".
I tried adding debug to the boot command, but it says that's invalid...
Any ideas how to diagnose?
PS: the drives are SCSI, but I figured if it can see them and format when booted from CD I would think it can see them ok
thanks :)
Compile a new kernel or use an initrd
Hi,
I suggest you boot Knoppix off the CD and use the command lsmod to find out which kernel modules are to be loaded for your SCSI adaptor.
These kernel modules have to be offered to the Knoppix kernel at boot time before it can access your SCSI HDD. The usual way to do so is to create an initial root disk and configure the boot loader so that the kernel loads it.
There are tools in the Debian distribution which help you create the initrd.
On the other hand, you could compile yourself a Linux kernel which includes the kernel modules needed by your SCSI adaptor.