Re: Adaptec RAID 2100s new install of Debian - please help!

[David <dwardhaugh@mail.ncl-coll.ac.uk>]

On Thursday 06 December 2001 00:40, Dimitri Maziuk wrote:
> * Graham Williams (Graham.Williams@cmis.CSIRO.AU) spake thusly:
> ...
>
> > Eventually VFS Kernel Panic.  Cant mount root fs.  There's also a
> > message about block-major-8.
>
> It's trying to load the driver from /lib/modules on root fs. Oops.
>
> You have two options:
> 1. build a custom kernel with the driver compiled in.
> 2. put root fs on a separate disk.

I'm having the same sort of problem with a Mylex card.  It uses the dac960 
module.

Would putting / on an IDE drive sort this out?  I plan to use the SCSI array 
for /var and things of that nature.

Cheers,

David.