Re: Enigma stuck at 2.4.9?

[Chris Kloiber <ckloiber redhat com>]

On Mon, 2001-12-31 at 09:35, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 08:41:23AM -0500, Steven Bradley wrote:
> > I've got a problem that needs me to install the 2.4.9-13 kernel.  The
> > problem is the "chicken and the egg" syndrome.  Specifically, it appears
> > my existing SCSI driver (for 2740W) is not compatible with the new kernel.
> > 
> > I do not know how to link the SCSI driver for 2.4.9-13 into the initrd
> > file to allow it to access SCSI during boot, I believe the driver is the
> > aic7xxx driver.  The problem is I am booted under the earlier file, the
> > version it uses when initrd is made, it does so under the existing 
> > environment (ie old driver) and I get all kinds of errors when I reboot
> > and try to use the new kernel.
> > 
> When you run mkinitrd to produce the initrd file for the kernel just use
> the --with=aic7xxx option.

Actually, it would be better to make sure your modules.conf is in order,
(alias scsi_hostadapter aic7xxx) then just use the command: 

# mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.4.9-13 2.4.9-13

Edit your {grub,lilo}.conf to match, and rerun lilo if used.

-- 
Chris Kloiber, RHCE
Enterprise Support
Red Hat, Inc.