Guest sunfish Posted June 9, 2004 Report Share Posted June 9, 2004 I've installed several versions of Mandrake successfully until 10.0. I have to use a cdrom.img floppy because my laptop will cannot boot from it's external scsi-cdrom. It appears the new kernel does not have built-in support for my scsi adapter. I scoured the docs on the CD and discovered that if you can find the relevant modules, copy them to an ext2 formatted floppy, and load them during the boot from floppy to solve this problem. Well, it was easy for them to say. My question is: where ARE these modules? There is a 5mb file called modules.cz-2.6.3-7mdkBOOT in Mandrake/mdkinst/lib that LOOKS like it should contain modules, but gzip chokes when I try to list it's innards. Has anyone tried an installation using this method? See below... >>sniped from docs >> Old SCSI adapters ----------------- - create an ext2 floppy... - find your driver in the kernel-BOOT package; for example, the driver might be: /lib/modules/<kernel-version>BOOT/kernel/3rdparty/dc395x_trm/dc395x_trm.o.gz - copy it unzipped on the ext2 floppy - also copy (unzipped) the dependencies for that module (such as scsi_mod.o for example; there might be others, check in the modules.dep file) - boot the cdrom.img floppy with F1 then "linux expert", it will allow you to put the floppy and load the modules from there, in dependencies order of course (scsi_mod.o first, etc) TIA, Geoff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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