Re: [gentoo-user] Tragic kernel building for vmware gentoo guest on WinXP

[Dirk Heinrichs]

On Thursday 11 December 2008 20:13:11 Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
> On Thursday 11 December 2008 00:07:44 Harry Putnam wrote:
> > I've started a new thread on my kernel troubles.  I thought the thread
> > subject should be more indicative of the semi OT nature of the query.
> >
> > Here is the general setup and the general problem:
> >
> > vmware appliance made from gentoo-2008.0
> > [...]
> > I've compiled 2.6.27-r5 using the config that works with 2.6.24-r8 as
> > the basis.  I did prune out a few things... all wireless some hid and
> > most usb.
> >
> > This kernel fails as I expected and here is small screen shot of the
> > error.  It appears something is lacking that lets the kernel know that
> > /dev/sda1 (boot) and /dev/sdb3 are valid /boot and /
> >
> > Here are the grub lines:
> >
> > title=/dev/sda1 hp 2.6.27-r5 NO INTITRD
> > root (hd0,0)
> > kernel /kernel-2.6.27-r5 root=/dev/sdb3 video=vesafb:mtrr3,ywrap
> > vga=0x317
> >
> > Screen shot of boot messages:
>
> From that and the contents of the original initrd you posted in the former
> thread and what others already found out:
>
> This initrd has all all sorts of driver modules for SATA and SCSI chipsets,
> so it's most likely that you forgot to compile in the correct drivers into
> your custom kernel.
>
> I think I've seen somebody already identified one of them as some Fusion
> SCSI driver, so I guess you would need to compile the Fusion stuff into
> your kernel (they even have an own section in "menuconfig").
>
> What this initrd doesn't have is modules for SCSI Disk support and
> filesystems, so they seem to be compiled into the kernel directly.
>
> Could please post the kernels .config (or /proc/config) and lspci output
> from the original, working setup?

Forgot this one: dmesg output from the working setup.

Bye...

	Dirk