scsi problems

Mark Hedges hedges at scruzbox.com
Mon Oct 14 18:36:30 CEST 2002


On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Geert Stappers wrote:
> >I was able to do an installation on a system with a single
> >scsi disk--- it loaded ide-scsi and aic7xxx modules.  But then
> >when it rebooted, it could not access the disk to load these
> >modules to access the disk... kernel panic trying to load vfs.
> >(Is that what happened?  It did get that far....  Bad disk?)
>
> kernel during  FAI install
> is not the same as the one that is installed

Which is which?

> >I tried again using a kernel with scsi support built-in,
> >instead of modules.  This time, although `discover` finds
> >the disks, setup_harddisks did not, and Debian::Fai replies
> >that there are no disks, so it selects "DISKLESS".
>
> Had the second attempt information about the disk partitions ( was
> configfile available?)

No, setup_harddisks could not see the disk and did not write a
config file.

--mark--




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