Once you have created your CDs, you are ready to begin installing Red Hat 7.2 on your Linux system.
Inside this BIOS, choose "delete array," "define array," and "choose Mirror."
Insert your Red Hat 7.2, disk-1 into your CD-ROM and reboot.
linux noprobe |
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Please do not click on �Skip boot disk creation�. If you skip this step and do not create a Boot Floppy disk, you will be very sorry later. |
When the installation is finished, you will see �Congratulations� screen.
cd /mnt/sysimage/lib/modules/2.4.7-10/kernel/drivers/scsi |
Make sure your Driver floppy is mounted. Go into the floppy and type
mv module.cgz /tmp cd /tmp gzip -dc module.cgz | cpio -idumv |
Now, you will see a bunch of directories created under /tmp.
cd /tmp/`uname -r` cp ft.o /mnt/sysimage/lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/scsi |
less /mnt/sysimage/etc/lilo.conf |
/mnt/sysimage/usr/sbin/chroot /mnt/sysimage /sbin/mkinitrd \ --preload jbd \ --preload ext3 \ --preload scsi_mod \ --with ft \ /boot/initrd.img 2.4.7-10 |
If it does not boot, insert your Boot Floppy and reboot and login; And then repair as follows:
If your machine is SMP, you will have to manually create initrdsmp.img, when you boot into Uniprocessor Kernel as shown below, and edit /etc/lilo.conf and then test to see you can boot into SMP system.
When you boot your machine into 2.4.7-10 uniprocessor kernel, type the following to make initrdsmp.img to be used for 2.4.7-10smp kernel:
/sbin/mkinitrd \ --preload jbd \ --preload ext3 \ --preload scsi_mod \ --with ft \ /boot/initrdsmp.img 2.4.7-10smp |
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If you are tired of remembering the command to create initrd files, dowload my geninitrd script and keep it handy. |
Adjust your /etc/lilo.conf accordingly for 2.4.7-10smp (the SMP kernel section), type /sbin/lilo and reboot into the SMP kernel. Here is how /etc/lilo.conf should look like.
At this point, you have a working Red Hat 7.2 machine with SMP support, if applicable. If you are happy with the fact that you are running a fake Hardware RAID from Promise FastTrack using SCSI Emulation, then read no further.
Because Promise Driver is a SCSI emulation, it puts a lot of load on CPU(s). Read on if you want to enable true Linux native RAID and get rid of this Promise SCSI emulation.