I'm going to with the RH kernel source RPM and see if it builds correctly (as compared to the kernel i386 source rpm which is in the regular distribution as opposed to the SRPMS dir)...
David
On Friday, Dec 6, 2002, at 20:34 America/New_York, David HM Spector wrote:
Hmmm... I think its the right one -- its the IBM ServeRAID driver -- the "ips" driver (the machine is an IBM NetFinity 5000 which has both the IBM ServeRAID and the Adaptec 7895. The modules.conf file looks like this:
alias scsi_hostadapter ips
alias scsi_hostadapter1 aic7xxx
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
alias eth0 pcnet32
alias eth1 eepro100
alias usb-controller usb-ohci
Originally, scsi_hostadapter pointed to the aix7xxx (which is not used at the moment) but event setting them as above and re-making the initrd file (via "make install" from the top of the kernel source tree) didn't help.
_DHMS
On Friday, Dec 6, 2002, at 18:53 America/New_York, Samuel Flory wrote:
David HM Spector wrote:OK.. I'm stumped. Building working kernels and initial ramdisks under RedHat has always been a bit of a black art. However under RH8 no matter what I do I get a kernel panic (unable to open root fs) when I try to run my custom system.
The kernel I am using is the latest from kernel.org (2.4.20) with the probe all SCSI LUNs turned to support a tape autoloader I want to use on this system and most everything else enabled as a module. I tried to recompile the 2.4.18-18.8.0 kernel sources using RedHat's config file but got zillions of errors ralating to network devices, and God knows what else.
For the 2.4.20 kernel, the make dep;make vmlinux; make modules;make modules_install and then make install all execute without error.
I've tried using rdev to tell the /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-custom boot image what disk its on all to no avail (although when I ask it with rdev what its boot disk is I get the correct answer -- sda5 in my case [sda1 is /boot]..)
Has anyone had success building a custom kernel under RH8..?
Your issue is most likely you aren't loading the right driver for your scsi controller. Look in /etc/modules.conf there should a scsi_hostadapter alias. Be sure you either include it built into the kernel or load it in your initrd.
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