scsi problems

[Mark Hedges]

On Tue, 15 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?
> The FAI install kernel is on the TFTP server (unpacked)
> The one that is gonna installed, is in the debian archive ( in a package )

I created a kernel_image package using make-kpkg.  I put this in
/usr/lib/fai/kernel/ and changed /etc/fai/fai.conf to use this
package as KERNELPACKAGE.

Do I use the TFTP server?  I use a floppy boot disk created with
a custom light-weight kernel with all the Ethernet drivers.  Is
this the kernel that must support all SCSI, or the one unpacked
to /usr/lib/fai/nfsroot/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.19?  The boot floppy
mounts the root partition with NFS.  Which package unpacks to
/usr/lib/fai/nfsroot/boot?  Documentation confused me.

Apparently there was no config file available, as I recall.
Maybe the SCSI on-board adapter cable is loose.  I plugged in an
IDE drive to boot it; now /proc/scsi/scsi lists none attached.

Right now the strangest thing started happening.  fai-setup
reports that apt is missing, but apt is installed.  oops, I
think I put sid in my server's sources.list by mistake.
sawfish-gnome went haywire even after repair, but KDE works
fine still.  *LOL*! =)  There's no end to system admin.

--mark--