Derek Fountain wrote:
You can't upgrade RHL to SuSE. The underlying technology is just too different. The line in LILO which you are confused over is the one which loads your ramdisk at boot time, and that's what carries the SCSI driver. SuSE is so confused it is not including it. No ramdisk means no SCSI, no SCSI means it can't see your root partition. So it stops dead.
It would be a major piece of work to sort out all the problems you've introduced. Much easier to just copy the important files you want somewhere safe (XF86Config, etc) then wipe the disk and start from scratch with SuSE.
I'm having a bad time with a 486PC that has a SCSI-Adaptec 154x.- It had a RedHat 6.0 Linux working fine, when I decided to upgrade to SuSE 6.3.- All upgrade went OK, but when I had to reboot I received the following message:
#VFS: Cannot open root device 08:01 #Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:01
I made all my 'homework'and these are the results:
-lilo.conf of the old install and the new one I obtain from Yast differe only in the following line: OLD: initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.5-15.img NEW: line is missing and if I add it by hand, when I run Yast it deletes this line.-
-I changed kernels but, if I select the i386 (recomended for 486) I have the above message and if I select the SCSI-Kernel with modules it complains that it's not a Pentium.-
I suppose that the problem is in some place of lilo, Yast or the Kernell I select but cannot figure it out.-
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Well, yeah, that would work... But I can definitely understand not wanting to give up all the configuration you've done (winodow stuff, etc...) I'm sure there's a way to prevent Yast from modifying it... Isn't there a switch in Yast to tell it not to modify your config files? I haven't touched Yast since a few days after I installed... Give me a bit and I'll look. -- --Richard D. Slaughter Richie @ R & W Trucking -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/