At 13:31 01/02/99 +0000, you wrote:
>Thomas Gamble wrote:
>>
>> I recently tried compiling my 2.0.36 kernal for smp and got the
following errors when
>> trying to boot:
>>
>> loading aic7xxx module
>> /lib/aic7xxx.0: unresolved symbol scsi_unregister_Rd5403f3a
>> /lib/aic7xxx.0: unresolved symbol scsi_register_R0f08cac5
>> VFS: cannot open root device 08:05
>> kernal panic: VFS: unable to mount fs on 08:05
>>
>> I read all the available documentation prior to attempting the recompile
and did the
>> following:
>>
>> edited the makefile and uncommented 'smp=1'
>> make menuconfig (the aic7xxx dirver was set up as a module)
>> make dep
>> make clean
>> make zImage
>> make modules
>> make modules_install
>
>At a wild guess, looks like your initial ramdisk (initrd) is out of
>date. I forget how to rebuild it automatically (since I usually end up
>doing it by hand) but I'm sure you can figure it out (the initrd is an
>ext2 disk image which you can mount using the loopback option and it's
>probably gzipped too, can't remember).
>
>Neil
I've always compiled the scsi driver into the kernel rather than as a module.
Your adaptec module is not loading because of a dependency failure therefore
your machine cannot see it's root drive.
Maybe I'm being dense but surely you cannot have the disk driver as a module
because the modules reside on the disk and thus cannot be accessed until the
driver is installed?
hih
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