Well, check the obvious first. Boot off your floppy, run /sbin/lilo and try rebooting off the hard drive. Hope it's that simple. W.D.McKinney wrote:

Hello and thanks for helping.... Well let me re-iterate. I loaded up a fresh copy of 5.2 on the hardrive, grabbed a copy of the latest kernel from ftp.suse.com and when I try to boot off the hardrive I get this boot-up-message:

------------------------------------------------------------- Calibrating delay loop.. ok - 398.95 BogoMIPS Memory: 0k/0k Available (0k kernel code, 0k reserved, 0k data) Kernel Panic; Failed to allocate buffer hash table

In swapper task - not syncing ------------------------------------------------------------

But booting the same kernel off a floppy....:

--------------------------------------------------------------- <4>Probing PCI hardware. <4>Calibrating delay loop.. ok - 398.95 BogoMIPS <4>Memory: 127784k/131072k available (768k kernel code, 384k reserved, 2136k data) -----------------------------------------------------------------

And it boots fine with the floppy . Is this a lage hard disk error now ? I have the same disk I had before and it worked fine in the past ?

Sure do appreciate the responses but still need help. -Dee

Matthias Morche wrote:

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Ok, /me crosses my fingers, one more obvious thing to check would be to fire up fdisk and make sure the / partition has the bootable toggle on (option "a" in linux fdisk, and I'm not sure if that would cause that behaviour, but check it anyway). If that isn't the problem let me get this straight, booting off the hard drive makes it past lilo into the boot process, where was it locking? W.D.McKinney wrote:

Hi Michael,

Yes, I've tried running lilo and it shows linux* with no problems but the same error on booting of the hard-drive. Any other ideas ?

Thanks

-Dee

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Arun K. Khan wrote: ...

Matthias,

Regarding loadable modules for SCSI, I have not experienced the problem with NCR/Symbios (NCR8xx chip set) SCSI cards. Although, in most cases I do compile a custom kernel with the NCR8xxx drivers non-modularized. ...

Maybe the ncr driver is compiled into the kernel on the floppy. I'm not clever enough to imagine for what reason the aic is not :-) Matthias -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e