Hi,
I too experienced a problem very similar to this in Yoper Blacksand. In
the end to resolve this for myself with my symbios 53c875 scsi card,
I used the chroot technique to mount the yoper system and the built a
custom kernel ( 2.6.15 ) with support for my scsi card and disks into
the kernel
(ie not as a module).
This worked for me, I can't comment on issues for other distros however.
No matter what I tried with yaird I could not get the system to boot
from the initrd image.
I can only suggest a custom compiled kernel.
What ever distro you use, just use their kernel .config file usually
found in /boot as the starting template for compiling your kernel.
That way the resultant kernel is as close as possible to the distros
kernel except where needed to be different.
Cheers.
D.
cjk wrote:
Hi
Having big problems for the last two weeks getting 2 x Dell 1950 PE
servers to run Debian they run SUSE 10 just fine :-(( I don't use
Suse just Debian and I don't want to learn another OS.
The research so far indicates there is a bug in the kernel 2.6.x up to
and including 2.6.18 where initrd.img will not work and an
alternative boot method is required such as YAIRD.
I booted using the ETCH install disk and the installer finds the
SCSI raid controller and installed the OS no problems. It then dies
with a Kernel Panic.
I built a 2.6.17 -rc2 and a 2.6.15 kernel which has the LSI and latest
SCSI drivers and I get to:
ALERT! /dev/sda1 does not exist Dropping to a shell! and get Busybox
After foillowing Tobias's guidelines I booted from ETCH 2.6.8 mounted
and chroot to /target
mounted /sys/and proc and built using YAIRD using the 2.6.8 ETCH CD
the new INITRD.IMG and still cant see the drives... I get the Kernel
Panic as if I had not used Yaird at all.
I also attempted to use Yaird to build the 2.6.17-rc2 kernel
initrd.img but get a modprobe error.
I beleive the 2.6.17 kernel I have built will work (the eternal
optimist) as long as I can build a new yaird initrd.img for it.
I considered building a global kernel 2.6.17 to boot off on another PC
and making a boot CD or even attempting to run yaird on the spare PC.
The $64,000 question is how is this done? Any thoughts or ideas
apreciated.
Chris
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"Never ascribe to malice that which may adequately be explained by
incompetence." - Napoleon Bonaparte
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