Ok heres the deal, I have a IBM Netfinity 3000, not the fastest little guy on the planet, but it a durable running little thing. The IBM has a ServeRaid II card in it with 4 x 9GB scsi drives, in a raid 5 configuration, Setup up three partitions with cfdisk, a 4GB for Root, 500MB Swap, Rest went to data storage for a sambe share on the network, and a small intranet webserver, and a mysql database, for our new inventory management program.

I have installed Knoppix V3.3 02-16-2004 to the HD, once the install is done and reboot, I get a kmod failure, will get to the exact error in a second.

Here is a copy of the install messages that you get from running the install from a shell, while booted to the live cd.

root@ttyp0[knoppix]# knx-hdinstall
Setting up /dev/sda3 as swap...
Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 589893 kB
Creating filesystem on /dev/sda1...
Filesystem label=
OS type: Linux
Block size=4096 (log=2)
Fragment size=4096 (log=2)
488640 inodes, 976114 blocks
48805 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user
First data block=0
30 block groups
32768 blocks per group, 32768 fragments per group
16288 inodes per group
Superblock backups stored on blocks:
32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736

Writing inode tables: done
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done

This filesystem will be automatically checked every 31 mounts or
180 days, whichever comes first. Use tune2fs -c or -i to override.
tune2fs 1.35-WIP (31-Jan-2004)
Copying files...ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255 up
route add default gw 192.168.0.254
Setting Nameserver in /etc/resolv.conf to 192.168.0.254
Done.
cp: cannot stat `/mnt/target/usr/share/gnome/apps/Knoppix/*': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `/etc/alternatives/soffice.*': No such file or directory
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
512 bytes transferred in 0.023634 seconds (21664 bytes/sec)
Setting up boot loader (LILO)...
shell-init: could not get current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: No such file or directory
Added Linux *
Skipping /vmlinuz.old
root@ttyp0[knoppix]#

ok now once I reboot the error meesage that I get is

kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k block-major-8, errno = 2
VFS: Cannot open root device "801" or 08:01
Please append a correct "root=" boot option
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:01

as far as what I can tell from the rest of the messages up above these errors I see no problems, but also I do not see anywhere that it is loading the megaraid.o file like it does when booting from the cd.

The quirky thing is that if you boot from cd, you can mount the drives and life is good, the cd sees everythign just perfectly, using the megaraid.o for the ServeRaid II card, but for some reason once installed to the HD, either lilo, or something else is not quite right.

Any help would be greatly appriciated. Thanks!

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