So far - no traction on Redhat Seawolf list so I'll post this here too. Distro is RH 7.1 Micron PC Netframe LV 2000 server MBD001094-00 Motherboard Model: Intel R440LX Form Factor: ATX specification v.2.0 Expansion Slots: (5) Five total slots; (4) Four PCI slots ; (1) One Shared PCI/ISA Chipset: Intel 440LX Chipset Intel 82443LX PAC, Intel 82371AB PIIX4 PCI/ISA IDE Xcelerator: 2 channels for 4 IDE device PIO Mode 0,; PIO Mode 3 & PIO Mode 4; ATA-33 Super I/O Controller: National* Super I/O 87307; (2) Two 16C550A UART SCSI Subsystem: SCSI-3 Controller (1) Integrated Adaptec 7880 Ultra-wide Also has - and this is probably part of the problem an Adaptec 1000 Family Raid Array Controller / dual channel Install is good, but won't boot from hard drive. Boots from floppy. I have 3 problems with this that I would like to fix. 1. Boot from hard drive 2. Be able to use hardware RAID - I set it up with software RAID because it listed both hard drives and it shouldn't have. I used the hardware RAID with WinNT with no problem so I know that it works. 3. Use SMP - it is a dual processor. I would compile a kernel but it won't work until I can boot from hard drive. I've already tried to upgrade kernel - rpm -ivh kernel-2.4.3.etc and as you will see from /boot, it put the parts there, it created the modules but it didn't fix lilo and it obviously still requires the old floppy to boot. Anyway, I will include in this order... /etc/lilo.conf /var/log/dmesg output of lspci output of ls -l /boot for those inclined to help me. My apologies to the uninterested for sending a longer email. Thanks Craig /etc/lilo.conf -------------- boot=/dev/sda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b prompt timeout=50 message=/boot/message #linear lba32 default=linux image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.2-2 label=linux initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.2-2.img read-only root=/dev/md2 append="lba32" ------------ /var/log/dmesg -------------- Linux version 2.4.2-2 (root@porky.devel.redhat.com) (gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.1 2.96-79)) #1 Sun Apr 8 20:41:30 EDT 2001 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: 000000000009e400 @ 0000000000000000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 0000000000001c00 @ 000000000009e400 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000000018000 @ 00000000000e8000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000007f00000 @ 0000000000100000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 0000000000001000 @ 00000000fec00000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000000001000 @ 00000000fee00000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000000180000 @ 00000000ffe80000 (reserved) On node 0 totalpages: 32768 zone(0): 4096 pages. zone DMA has max 32 cached pages. zone(1): 28672 pages. zone Normal has max 224 cached pages. zone(2): 0 pages. zone HighMem has max 1 cached pages. Kernel command line: initrd=initrd.img root=/dev/md2 BOOT_IMAGE=vmlinuz auto Initializing CPU#0 Detected 266.621 MHz processor. Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 532.48 BogoMIPS Memory: 126084k/131072k available (1365k kernel code, 4596k reserved, 92k data, 236k init, 0k highmem) Dentry-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) Buffer-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes) Page-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.5.0 initialized CPU: Before vendor init, caps: 0080fbff 00000000 00000000, vendor = 0 CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K CPU: L2 cache: 512K Intel machine check architecture supported. Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0. CPU: After vendor init, caps: 0080fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: After generic, caps: 0080fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: Common caps: 0080fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: Intel Pentium II (Klamath) stepping 04 Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX mtrr: v1.37 (20001109) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au) mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfdaaf, last bus=2 PCI: Using configuration type 1 PCI: Probing PCI hardware Unknown bridge resource 0: assuming transparent Unknown bridge resource 1: assuming transparent Unknown bridge resource 2: assuming transparent Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers. isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... isapnp: No Plug & Play device found Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 Initializing RT netlink socket apm: BIOS not found. Starting kswapd v1.8 pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured block: queued sectors max/low 83642kB/27880kB, 256 slots per queue RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev a1 PIIX4: chipset revision 1 PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfc90-0xfc97, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfc98-0xfc9f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306 RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 Freeing initrd memory: 379k freed Serial driver version 5.02 (2000-08-09) with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A ttyS02 at 0x03e8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A Real Time Clock Driver v1.10d md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27 md.c: sizeof(mdp_super_t) = 4096 autodetecting RAID arrays autorun ... ... autorun DONE. NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP IP: routing cache hash table of 1024 buckets, 8Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 8192) Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 aic7xxx: The 7810 RAID controller is not supported by this driver, we are ignoring it. (scsi0) found at PCI 2/4/0 (scsi0) Wide Channel A, SCSI ID=7, 16/255 SCBs (scsi0) Downloading sequencer code... 436 instructions downloaded (scsi1) found at PCI 0/11/0 (scsi1) Wide Channel, SCSI ID=7, 16/255 SCBs (scsi1) Downloading sequencer code... 436 instructions downloaded (scsi2) found at PCI 2/8/0 (scsi2) Wide Channel B, SCSI ID=7, 16/255 SCBs (scsi2) Downloading sequencer code... 436 instructions downloaded scsi0 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 5.2.4/5.2.0 scsi1 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 5.2.4/5.2.0 scsi2 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 5.2.4/5.2.0 (scsi0:0:0:0) Synchronous at 40.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 8. Vendor: WDIGTL Model: WDE9100 Rev: 1.30 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 (scsi0:0:1:0) Synchronous at 40.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 8. Vendor: WDIGTL Model: WDE9100 Rev: 1.30 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Vendor: SONY Model: SDT-9000 Rev: 0200 Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Vendor: PLEXTOR Model: CD-ROM PX-20TS Rev: 1.00 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Attached scsi disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0 SCSI device sda: 17783204 512-byte hdwr sectors (9105 MB) Partition check: sda: sda1 sda2 < sda5 sda6 sda7 sda8 sda9 > SCSI device sdb: 17783204 512-byte hdwr sectors (9105 MB) sdb: sdb1 sdb2 < sdb5 sdb6 sdb7 sdb8 sdb9 > raid1 personality registered as nr 3 eepro100.c:v1.09j-t 9/29/99 Donald Becker http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/eepro100.html eepro100.c: $Revision: 1.36 $ 2000/11/17 Modified by Andrey V. Savochkin and others eth0: Intel Corporation 82557 [Ethernet Pro 100], 00:A0:C9:B2:15:87, I/O at 0xfce0, IRQ 9. Receiver lock-up bug exists -- enabling work-around. Board assembly 678400-001, Physical connectors present: RJ45 Primary interface chip i82555 PHY #1. General self-test: passed. Serial sub-system self-test: passed. Internal registers self-test: passed. ROM checksum self-test: passed (0x49caa8d6). Receiver lock-up workaround activated. eth1: Intel Corporation 82557 [Ethernet Pro 100] (#2), 00:A0:C9:83:36:8D, I/O at 0xfcc0, IRQ 5. Receiver lock-up bug exists -- enabling work-around. Board assembly 645520-034, Physical connectors present: RJ45 Primary interface chip DP83840 PHY #1. DP83840 specific setup, setting register 23 to 0422. General self-test: passed. Serial sub-system self-test: passed. Internal registers self-test: passed. ROM checksum self-test: passed (0x49caa8d6). Receiver lock-up workaround activated. autodetecting RAID arrays (read) sda1's sb offset: 104320 [events: 0000000a] (read) sda5's sb offset: 1317184 [events: 0000000a] (read) sda6's sb offset: 1317184 [events: 0000000a] (read) sda7's sb offset: 1317184 [events: 0000000a] (read) sda8's sb offset: 393472 [events: 0000000a] (read) sda9's sb offset: 4433792 [events: 0000000a] (read) sdb1's sb offset: 104320 [events: 0000000a] (read) sdb5's sb offset: 1317184 [events: 0000000a] (read) sdb6's sb offset: 1317184 [events: 0000000a] (read) sdb7's sb offset: 1317184 [events: 0000000a] (read) sdb8's sb offset: 393472 [events: 0000000a] (read) sdb9's sb offset: 4433792 [events: 0000000a] autorun ... considering sdb9 ... adding sdb9 ... adding sda9 ... created md5 bind bind running: sdb9's event counter: 0000000a sda9's event counter: 0000000a RAID level 1 does not need chunksize! Continuing anyway. md5: max total readahead window set to 508k md5: 1 data-disks, max readahead per data-disk: 508k raid1: device sdb9 operational as mirror 1 raid1: device sda9 operational as mirror 0 (checking disk 0) (checking disk 1) raid1: raid set md5 active with 2 out of 2 mirrors md: updating md5 RAID superblock on device sdb9 [events: 0000000b](write) sdb9's sb offset: 4433792 sda9 [events: 0000000b](write) sda9's sb offset: 4433792