Proliant 2500 Slackware 9.1 kernel 2.6.0

Tony Bennett says...

Compiled and installed new kernel, made modules and generated modules.conf.

When booting:

boot: 2.6.0
Loading 2.6.0.............
BIOS data check sucessful
Uncompressing Linux ... OK, booting the kernel.

And it hangs

Any help please.

Oh yes

2500 dual PPro
1024M memory
Smart2

Assuming that it worked before the kernel change, I would
suspect that the new kernel doesn't have support for the
Compaq Smart2 RAID array and the old one did.

http://www.tojabr.com/lxr/http/sourc...n/cpqarray.txt
says the following:

"You need to build a new kernel to use this device, even if
you want to use a loadable module. Apply the patch..."

....

"If you want to use an EISA controller you'll have to supply some
insmod/lilo parameters. If the driver is compiled into the kernel,
you must give it the controller's IO port address at boot time"

....

"You'll need to use a modified lilo if you want to boot from a
disk array. Its simply a version of lilo with some code added
to tell it how to understand Compaq diskarray devices."

....

"You need some entries in /dev for the ida device. The mkdev.ida
script can make device nodes for you automatic..."

-cpqarray.txt

Perhaps one of these steps wasn't done?


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Compiled and installed new kernel, made modules and generated modules.conf.

When booting:

boot: 2.6.0
Loading 2.6.0.............
BIOS data check sucessful
Uncompressing Linux ... OK, booting the kernel.


And it hangs

Any help please.

Oh yes

2500 dual PPro
1024M memory
Smart2

Thanks

Tony

Tony Bennett wrote:

Compiled and installed new kernel, made modules and generated modules.conf.

2.6 doesn't use modules.conf. It uses modprobe.conf!

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(make the obvious amendments to reply!)

Tony Bennett wrote in message om...
Compiled and installed new kernel, made modules and generated modules.conf.
When booting:
boot: 2.6.0
Loading 2.6.0.............
BIOS data check sucessful
Uncompressing Linux ... OK, booting the kernel.
And it hangs
2500 dual PPro
1024M memory
Smart2
Thanks
Tony

Tony,

Did you define memory as part of the kernel config? Does adding
mem=exactmap mem=640k@0m mem=1023m@1m to the boot prompt in lilo or
grub correct the problem?

VV

On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 09:46:03 -0800, VinceV wrote:

Tony Bennett wrote in message om...
Compiled and installed new kernel, made modules and generated modules.conf.
When booting:
boot: 2.6.0
Loading 2.6.0.............
BIOS data check sucessful
Uncompressing Linux ... OK, booting the kernel.
And it hangs
2500 dual PPro
1024M memory
Smart2
Thanks
Tony

Tony,

Did you define memory as part of the kernel config? Does adding
mem=exactmap mem=640k@0m mem=1023m@1m to the boot prompt in lilo or
grub correct the problem?

VV

Vince

Hi, yes, did that. Still not booting.

Tony