On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 06:46:34AM +0000, Simon Hepburn wrote:
> Matt Garman wrote:
>
> > The new problem, though, is now my SCSI CD-ROMs don't work. The hard
> > drives work fine. The SCSI device driver *is* recognizing the SCSI
> > CD-ROMs. However, I can't mount any /dev/scdx device.
>
> Do you have scsi-cdrom support in your kernel ? If you compiled it as a
> module, is it loading ?
I originally had SCSI cdrom support in my kernel (in my 2.4.17 kernel,
that is). I copied the 2.4.17 config file to the 2.4.19-pre3 source
directory and did a "make oldconfig". Apparantly, the SCSI cdrom
support got lost somehow... <shrug>
Anyway, from the new system (on the new IDE drive), I recompiled the
kernel WITH scsi cdrom support. I rebooted, and.... Kernel panic.
I'm going in circles here. I'm once again stuck.
In my kernel config, I said "yes" to the "boot offboard controllers
first" (or something to that effect). This is the option whose help
says that you might need to pass the append="ide=reverse" parameter to
the kernel. Check. I have the following line in my /etc/lilo.conf:
append="ide=reverse"
Another interesting line from /etc/lilo.conf is this:
root=/dev/hda2
This is correct---my root partition is /dev/hda2.
Now, when this kernel boots, it IS recognizing my ata/133 attached
drive as /dev/hda (i.e. it is seeing the append="ide=reverse" option):
hda: [PTBL] [14593/255/63] hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4
< hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 hda9 hda10 >
Everything looks like it's rolling along as planned... but then it
says something to the effect of "can't find /sbin/modprobe... check
root= kernel option"
Finally I get the kernel panic, and it says "can't mount root on
device 3:02". If I understand correctly, device 3:02 IS the second
partition of my first IDE drive.
I'm using the SAME kernel on my "old" SCSI system. I can mount
/dev/hdx without any problem. I don't understand what has gone
wrong. I WAS able to boot from that 2.4.19-pre3 kernel; all I did was
go in and add SCSI cdrom support. Blew it all away. I even tried
rebuilding the kernel from a clean 2.4.19-pre3 source. I triple
checked that both the "boot offboard controllers fist" and promise
ata/133 options are turned on in the kernel.
I'm about at wit's end here... definately losing my mind... help!
Thanks!
Matt
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Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
``I ain't never seen no whiskey, the blues made my sloppy drunk!''
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