kernel panic on boot

[bruce woller]

Shawn:
I think your problem lies with the fact that SCSI drivers are loaded as 
modules at boot time via initrd function.  In previous YD distros they 
were built into the kernel.   You need AIC7xxx module for Adaptec HBAs 
to load before linux will boot from your SCSI drive.  I do not know how 
the 3.0 kernel gets it initrd file pointer on Old World machines 
(perhaps on kernel args field of BOOTX).  On New World machines it is 
in the yaboot.conf file: "initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.20-8d.img"

Good luck,
Bruce
On Thursday, August 21, 2003, at 06:50  AM, Shawn Protsman wrote:

> Hi Tim,
>
> Thank you for the advice.  I tried adding root=/dev/sdb6 to the 'More 
> Kernel Arguments' field in BootX.  This didn't work.  After I switched 
> the order of my SCSI drives I then tried root=/dev/sda6 which had the 
> same result.  I know I'm missing something here.  If entering the 
> above as a BootX kernel argument then how does one set the root device 
> correctly in my bootloader?
>