On Wednesday, November 17, 2004 08:35 pm, Jim Sabatke wrote:
I can do a manual install of 9.0 by removing the SCSI CD driver and adding the proper SCSI and RAID drivers. The install loads all the software from CD 1 and reboots. The reboot fails
Jim, Try this: Do a regular graphic install (I'm presuming that at least before the first reboot the installer finds all of your SCSI devices and loads the right modules.) up to the point where you get the screen that asks you to confirm things like time zone, package selection, grub location/configuration etc. Do a CTRL-ALT-F9 to get to a root console and look at /etc/sysconfig/kernel. See if the line beginning "INITRD_MODULES=" contains the SCSI driver module as well as any file system modules you may need to boot the system. If not, edit the file with pico to add the modules. As an example, the line from my file reads: INITRD_MODULES="dpt_i2o reiserfs". One of the last scripts in the first part of the install runs "mkinitrd", which uses the /etc/sysconfig/kernel file to build the initial ramdisk. If the appropriate SCSI driver doesn't get added to /etc/sysconfig/kernel, then the initial ram disk can't see your hard drives, and the reboot during the install will fail. Hope this helps. Mark -- _______________________________________________________ A Message From... L. Mark Stone Reliable Networks of Maine, LLC 477 Congress Street Portland, ME 04101 Tel: (207) 772-5678