Re: Re:kernel boot failure

["T. Weyergraf" <kirk@colinet.de>]

Hi,

> Scsi controller is Qlogic 1020,
> kernel menuconfig file  contains:
> CONFIG_SCSI=y
> Config_SCSI_QLOGIC_ISP=m, is this the problem?

Yes, this is the problem. Change
CONFIG_SCSI_QLOGIC_ISP=m
to
CONFIG_SCSI_QLOGIC_ISP=y

You are telling the kernel to load the driver for the scsi-controller, that
handles you root-partition at boot-time. Unfortunately, this driver
is on the root-partition ( usually ).
Changing from "m" to "y" links the driver to the kernel at compile
time ( yes, you need to recompile the kernel after that change ).
Thus, the driver is present upon loading the kernel itself and can
therefore happily go on and "talk" to your root-partition.


> -Mel

Regards,
T. Weyergraf

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Thomas Weyergraf                                                kirk@colinet.de
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