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Re: kt7-raid
Final thought: maybe it's a kernel bug - an event sequence problem.
Booting from a floppy the kernel is loaded before you actually try to do
any i/o operations on the hd. Booting from the harddrive requires
immediate i/o to load the kernel.
I've run out of ideas!
Rod
rod wrote:
>
> I don't think booting from a floppy actually uses a boot loader (just
> guessing).
>
> This does narrow it down a bit.
>
> Your boot floppy works (maybe no lilo).
> Can't boot kernel on hd when booting from hd (using lilo).
> Can't boot kernel on hd when using lilo from a floppy.
>
> All that is left that I can think to try would be to rename your
> /boot/vmlinuz to something else and copy over
> /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/bzImage to /boot/vmlinuz. Maybe your kernel got
> corrupted during the copy phase or maybe like I said before your copy of
> the kernel is sitting on a bad block on your hd. Sort of a strange
> situation.
>
> Rod
>
> [email protected] wrote:
> >
> > Ok, here is where I'm at. First, I wanted to be sure that my boot disk
> > and my vmlinux were using the exact same kernel, so I ran an md5sum on
> > them and the are identical. Next, I created a floppy that used lilo to
> > boot my system. Lilo running from the floppy failed when the Highpoint
> > controler was enabled, just like it did when I ran it from the mbr. I'm
> > really starting to think that there is something wrong with lilo, but I
> > can't figure out why it doesn't work. Also, if my boot disk is working,
> > what kernel loader does it use? Isn't it a version of lilo too? or is it
> > something else??
> >
> > Thanks for all the ideas
> >
> > jason
> >
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