Re: Kernel panic message.

["Leonard den Ottolander" <leonardjo hetnet nl>]

Hello Rajesh,

> I am running REDHAT linux 8 (linux 2.4.18-14) on Intel
> i686 platfrom.

 Update your system.

> The root partition is on the IDE disk from which is
> getting booted. Now I want to connect a SCSI disk on
> this system. But when I connect the SCSI disk, the
> system fails giving the kernel panic message that it
> was not able find the init level, use init=option.

 Does the SCSI disk contain a boot loader that might have accidently 
been loaded? How is your BIOS setup? Does your machine boot from IDE or 
SCSI first?

 If the SCSI disk does not contain a boot loader the machine should be 
booting from IDE even if the SCSI disk is tried first. If it does 
contain a boot loader this one is probably misconfigured for your 
current setup. You either have to update your BIOS to boot from IDE 
instead, or update the boot loader configuration of your SCSI disk. If 
you boot from SCSI you will need an initrd.img (man mkinitrd) to load 
the SCSI modules before booting.

Bye,
Leonard.

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