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On Thursday 11 December 2008 00:07:44 Harry Putnam wrote: |
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> I've started a new thread on my kernel troubles. I thought the thread |
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> subject should be more indicative of the semi OT nature of the query. |
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> Here is the general setup and the general problem: |
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> vmware appliance made from gentoo-2008.0 |
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> I've compiled 2.6.27-r5 using the config that works with 2.6.24-r8 as |
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> the basis. I did prune out a few things... all wireless some hid and |
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> most usb. |
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> This kernel fails as I expected and here is small screen shot of the |
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> error. It appears something is lacking that lets the kernel know that |
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> /dev/sda1 (boot) and /dev/sdb3 are valid /boot and / |
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> Here are the grub lines: |
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> title=/dev/sda1 hp 2.6.27-r5 NO INTITRD |
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> root (hd0,0) |
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> kernel /kernel-2.6.27-r5 root=/dev/sdb3 video=vesafb:mtrr3,ywrap vga=0x317 |
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> Screen shot of boot messages: |
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From that and the contents of the original initrd you posted in the former |
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thread and what others already found out: |
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This initrd has all all sorts of driver modules for SATA and SCSI chipsets, so |
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it's most likely that you forgot to compile in the correct drivers into your |
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custom kernel. |
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I think I've seen somebody already identified one of them as some Fusion SCSI |
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driver, so I guess you would need to compile the Fusion stuff into your kernel |
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(they even have an own section in "menuconfig"). |
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What this initrd doesn't have is modules for SCSI Disk support and |
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filesystems, so they seem to be compiled into the kernel directly. |
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Could please post the kernels .config (or /proc/config) and lspci output from |
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the original, working setup? |
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Bye... |
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Dirk |
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