Help! Linux won't boot and my nephew is coming for dinner!

[agabriel at home.tzo.org]

Are you sure your scsi card didn't die?  I've left out the initrd
parameter before and it always ran fine.  My laptop actually as a custom
kernel and I never gave it initrd option when I entered it in the
lilo.conf.  It also seems very strange that it dies when loading the
module.  I had that problem once before.  I had a 2940AU and a 2940UW card
in the same system and it was getting very confused.  The last distro that
could run with that was a very old SuSE.  I think your scsi card might be
hurting.  Tell you nephew your having hardware problems and your going to
fix it this week.

That would be my guess - I hope I'm wrong, its no fun to have hardware
die.

Good Luck,
Anthony

On Sun, 2 Sep 2001, Bill Horne wrote:

> Thanks for reading this: I've got a bootup problem, and need help fast.
> 
> I'm upgrading from 2.2.14 to 2.2.16, and after doing the RPM's I ran
> LILO.  I left out the initrd parm in lilo.conf (on the new kernel), and
> now the boot halts with a LIL- error. The book says I moved the map
> table.
> 
> Now, the complicated part: I have a SCSI disk, running on an Adaptec
> 2940 card. When I try to run the RedHat rescue option with the CD, it
> thinks for a second, says it's loading the AIC7XXX driver, and then
> dies. I don't have a boot floppy.
> 
> My nephew - to whom I gave a long lecture about backups and not fooling
> around with my sister's wintel box and always asking for help if he
> didn't know what he was doing - will be here today for the "end of
> summer" party. I'll never hear the end of it if he finds out. Never.
> 
> Short of reinstalling, what are my options?
> 
> Bill Horne
> 781 784-7287
> 
> 
> 
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