Hardware: ========= This is a standard PC-PIII 500MHz with an Intel motherboard and a DAC960 RAID solution from Mylex (a PCI-SCSI card with three harddisks attached, uses RAID level 5, BIOS 4.10-41). The machine also uses an internal IDE harddisk (although I would like to use only the RAID, I haven't gotten that far yet). The machine has been running quite some time with RedHat 6.1 and no internal IDE without any problems. Symptom: ======== Installation proceeds ok, all the disk can be properly partitioned, formatted and used for installation of the packages. On boot-from harddisk, LILO loads the kernel, you see: "LILO boot:\n" "Loading linux-rd7.................\n" (note the final newline) After that, it's eternal stillness. Attempts to remedy ================== Tried different partitioning, also with all the stuff on the IDE disk. If I rip out the SCSI cable, LILO loads a standard kernel and boots ok. I can't think of a way out of the problem right now.
...think I will take the plunge and try to build another kernel with the Dandelion Digital's DAC960 driver...if my employer doesn't whack me first. At least I will learn something :-))
On second thoughts, I think this bug can be squashed. I started again at the very beginning with formatting etc, and it worked. I'm not sure now that the machine didn't boot an old kernel on the RAID disk... My fault - sorry for the trouble :-(