FC-4 -- unhappy experiences

[akonstam at trinity.edu]

On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 08:51:38PM +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Matthew Miller wrote:
> 
> >> I upgrade rather than install because I do not have great confidence
> >> that the installation will work.
> >> Eg no installation has worked on a SCSI only machine since Redhat-9.
> > 
> > Since I install on SCSI-only machines all the time, this is clearly not
> > true.
> 
> Did you really misunderstand me?
> Let me remove any ambiguity:
> no Fedora installation has ever worked on _my_ SCSI only machine.
> The fact that they work on your SCSI only machine is interesting, 
> but irrelevant.
> 
> I give some details of my machine below.
> I have tried all the "official" Fedora kernels,
> and all of them have led to panics.
> I always compile a kernel with built-in SCSI
> (rather than as a module).
> 
> If anyone can tell me a magic formula to boot with a Fedora kernel
> I shall be very grateful.
Why are you compiling kernels? Just to get away from SCSI modules?
Do it first with the supplied kernel and see if that works. Then you
can compopile a kernel to see if it is your compliling or the kernel
that is causing trouble.
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