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?
Bye...
Dirk
