-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello, in the last 2 years I have installed every version of SuSE since 7.1 on various Dell PowerEdge servers using the aacraid and megaraid modules. I just installed 8.1 on a PowerEdge 2450 (PREC3/Si, aacraid module, setup as RAID5 with 2 containers) installation proceded just fine but when I use grub OR lilo (I have tried both) halts right after showing the initrd info and states: Freeing initrd memory: 322k freed VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) Loading module aacraid ... Using /lib/modules/2.4.19-64BG-SMP/kernel/drivers/scsi/aacraid/aacriad.o Red Hat/Adaptect aacraid driver, Sept 13 2002 And then it jus sits there. It's not totally frozen because it still accepts keyboard input, and there's no kernel panic, yet it doens't boot. If we boot off the CD, go to "manual installation", load the aacraid driver, and then choose "bootinstalled system" we are able to boot, however not matter what argumnets I try passing to lilo, I can't get it to boot on it's own. I'm thinking the initrd might be wrong, but I checked it and it's got aacraid, aic7xxx and reiserfs. I recreated it just for grins but that didn't help. Iless there's something screwy with the hardware I can't think what could be wrong, I've done this before on exactly the same hardware in 7.3 and 8.0. Containers were set up by someone else, 0 is 3 GB (sda) and 1 is `about 47 BG or so (sdb). Dell partition utility is primary partition 1 of sda, 55MB swap is pri. part. 2, 1GB boot is pri. part 3 200MB (reiserfs. I have used reiserfs for /boot for 2 years on dozens of installation so I know it works.) another partition of no consequence is pri.part 4 on sda / is sba1, all ~47 GB of it. Since I can boot it with the CD, I'm sure there's a way to set up lilo or grub to make it work, but whatever it is I can't figure it out. Any help would be greatly appreciated.... - -- - ---------------------------------------------------- Jonathan Wilson System Administrator Cedar Creek Software http://www.cedarcreeksoftware.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9sgE9Q5u80xXOLBcRAm7xAKDM0i/q6Nwf2jfs+WsSeeA+ocbnCgCfZCT0 AVdaDd+SP5nexOPjhum+Pm0= =11cf -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----