[gentoo-dev] SCSI support in gentoo installation

[Peter Permentier]

Hi,

I've just now tried to download and install your gentoo distro.

Everything looks ok, and the online intall guide is pretty neat but for a
minor detail: It would seem the entire installation assumes a complete IDE
setup. My system is a 100%scsi system and i would like to report the
following problem(s) i ran into. Perhaps these may assist you in tweaking
the install scripts for the next release. When unpacking and running the
stage1 tarball (I've tried a bit later using the stage3 tarball, but had
same result) the scsi devices are detected during bootup, and all seems
fine, but the /dev dir has no block devices set up for scsi (or so it
seemed in my install)

 However, once i ran

#mknod /dev/sda b 8 0

followed by

#fdisk /dev/sda

all necessary block devices were created/added (for every disk, even though
I only added one) and mounting and installation could resume their normal
course.
I'm not too familiar with linux yet to know if this is a general issue or
if it was specific to this machine, and since that's the only machine i own
that's SCSI enabled i cannot make the test on a different build as of yet.

Also, I've noticed that once the installation complete, when i reboot, the
kernel loads the correct scsi module, but again doesn't find/create any
/dev/sd?? block devices, and consequently fails to mount the root
partition.

Could this be related?
Do you perhaps have a suggestion how i might alleviate this problem?

wfg,
Peter Permentier

P.S. FYI The system in question is a dual processor intel machine. The
disks are UW scsi3 connected to 2 Adaptec AH-29160 adapters (3 disks per
adapter).
Should you require more specific info, please do not hesitate to ask.