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Hello everyone,

I'm having a little problem with Redhat 5.0 (although it may not be Redhat specific).

I've got a 486 machine using an Adaptec 1520 scsi host adapter.  Connected to it are a 1gig scsi disk and a scsi cd-rom.  There are no IDE devices in the system.  Using the Redhat install disk, the
host adapter is not detected using auto-probe.  I must specify the 152x series, and feed it the
parameters (ie: aha152x=0x140,11,7,1), then the install works correctly.

The scsi disk is set to scsi 0, and it has the root partition.  After installing, I install LILO to
the master boot record on the scsi disk...no problems here.

Once the install is complete, and I try to reboot, the machine boots, loads the kernel, and displays the following information:

scsi: 0 hosts.
scsi: detected total.

Partition check:
RAMDISK: compressed image found at block 0
VFS: mounted root (ext2 filesystem)
Loading AHA152X module
/lib/aha152x.o: symbol for parameter not found
VFS: Cannot open root device on 08:01
Kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 08:01

I know that the scsi card works, I have completed many installs in the past two days...my guess
is that since I had to specify the card parameters at setup, I need to pass them to the kernel
somehow at boot.  My only thought is that the kernel module for the aha152x is relying on parameters
that do not match the card..

Any thoughts?

Thanks in advance,

Marty

mmastera@holly.colostate.edu