Compaq Proliant/RH8.0 won't load

[David Lowe]

This one I have been working unsuccessfully on for the last 3 days. I have a 
Proliant that has a floppy, a IDE CD and 2 SCSI HD's running off a controller 
card (not the motherboard). It appears that either RH 8.0 cannot see the 
extended memory on the server (393 Mg) or it is unable to write to it. I have 
tried adding the memory boot parameter but that doesn't fix the problem. Just 
before it locks up I get the error msg: "Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to write 
fs to 09:02 ". Before that message another msg is displayed that says it 
cannot read the"superblock". 

If I do a total delete with the Compaq SmartStart software the initial screen 
on reboot only shows 16 Mg of memory. It isn't until I run the system 
configuration that the server sees all 393 Mg.

I have swapped the memory sticks, motherboard, scsi controller board and all 
the cables. Has anyone had experience with a situation like this? Thanks for 
any help................dbl
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David Lowe
MIG #871
Linux Reg User #244536