Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 18:19:19 +0100 (CET)
From: Lenz Grimmer <grimmer@suse.de>
To: <LINUX_FORUM@TECHCONNECT.EASE.LSOFT.COM>
Subject: New ServeRAID SuSE Linux boot floppy available

Hi,

there is now a new boot disk image which also supports the latest
ServeRAID controllers using the IPS 4.40 kernel driver.

The floppy disk image is available from the SuSE ftp Server:

ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.0/kernel/ips-4.40/

download the floppy disk image named "bootdisk.img" and dump in on an
emtpy floppy disk using RAWRITE (under DOS/Windows) or the "dd" command
under Linux:

dd if=bootdisk.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=9k

Now boot off from this floppy and start the installation as usual. As soon
as the system has been installed, you need to replace the installed driver
modules with the new version before you reboot!

To accomplish this, download either "ips-smp.o" (if you have an SPM
system) or "ips.o" (on a single processor machine) from the same directory
and replace either /lib/modules/2.2.16-SMP/scsi/ips.o (SMP)
/lib/modules/2.2.16/scsi/ips.o (single CPU) with the downloaded file
before you reboot the system.

You now should recreate the initial ramdisk (initrd) and the LILO boot
record by running the following commands:

mk_initrd
lilo

Have fun,

	LenZ
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