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