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On 10/30/2005 9:33 AM Holly Bostick wrote: |
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>Drew Tomlinson schreef: |
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>>I am trying to upgrade from a 2.6.11 genkernel to 2.6.13-r5 |
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>>genkernel. However when booting, I get a message about root not being |
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>>a valid root device and then a prompt to enter the correct one. |
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>><snip> it appears likely that my problem is that |
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>>Advansys SCSI support is either not built into my kernel or is built |
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>>as a module? In any event, I ran genkernel with the --menuconfig |
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>>option to check it out. But I could not find Advansys support in the |
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>>SCSI Low Level Drivers section. Searching on 'advansys' revealed |
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>>this: |
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>>Symbol: SCSI_ADVANSYS [=n] |
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>Well, this means that the ADVANSYS support is not built at all (if it |
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>was set to be built as a loadable module, it would say =m, and if it was |
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>statically built into the kernel, it would say =y). |
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>>Prompt: AdvanSys SCSI support |
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>> Defined at drivers/scsi/Kconfig:401 |
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>> Depends on: (ISA || EISA || PCI) && SCSI && BROKEN Location: |
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>> -> Device Drivers -> SCSI device support |
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>> -> SCSI device support (SCSI [=y]) -> SCSI low-level |
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>>drivers |
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>>So why does this not show up in menuconfig and is there some way to |
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>>turn this on? |
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>The Depends on section tells you what is required for the option to appear. |
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>In the Device Drivers section, under SCSI device support, SCSI device |
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>support must be set to yes, and then SCSI low-level drivers must be |
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>enabled/selected for this and other sub-options to appear. |
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>So I would suggest heading back to menuconfig and enabling what needs to |
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>be enabled, and then the option itself when it appears, naturally. |
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Thank you for your reply. I think I have all the stuff enabled as I see |
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plenty of other SCSI adapters like Adaptec, QLogic, and others. What |
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does the "&& BROKEN" mean? Is it "broken" and that's why I don't see it? |
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Thanks, |
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Drew |
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