Shawn wrote: > Been running into some issues with a couple of machines I'm trying to > set up and I can't figure it out. I've looked at two different books: > Slackware Linux Unleashed (Sam's Publishing) and Linux System > Administration Black Book (Coriolis), along with Slackware website, and > have only found a partial answer. > > Here's the scenario: > I have two machines I'm trying to install Slackware 7.1 on. The first > one is an old Gateway P120- 32MB ram, SCSI CD-ROM (ID6), 200MB SCSI HDD > (ID4 or 5), and two 800MB IDE HDD's. Second machine is an old Compaq > ODP-83, 32MB RAM, 400MB IDE drive, 200MB SCSI HDD. > > When trying to install Slackware on the first machine, I can get it to > do so successfully if I do one of the following: 1) Leave all HDD's in > the machine, and put LILO to a floppy. It'll boot successfully, and > work fine. 2) Remove second IDE and SCSI HDD's and put LILO to the > hard drive. > > With the first scenario, if I try to configure the LILO.conf file on the > HDD, then boot up I get nothing but scrolling 0's and 1's and it won't > boot to the OS. Put the floppy back in and it boots fine. > > In the second scenario, if I put the other two HDD's in the system after > the install it boots fine until I modify the fstab file. I add the two > drive into fstab ( /dev/hdb and /dev/sda both set to ext2 and then > settings of 1 and then boot sequence). I can then fdisk the IDE HDD and > I think I was able to fdisk the SCSI one once. Upon reboot, I get an > error saying that /dev/sda? doesn't exist. It will let me continue on > with single user mode and I can do basic functions, and also can do > fdisk on the two IDE drives. If I try to fdisk the SCSI, it says > something about procedure doesn't exist or some such thing and then it > goes into funky command line mode. > The symptoms seem to indicate that the your scsi driver isn't loaded when it attempts to access /dev/sda? You either need to compile your scsi driver module into the kernel (as opposed to being a module) or modify your rc.sysinit script to load the module before fstab and fsck are invoked. Eric