Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 1 Apr 2005 21:31:05 -0500 | From | Jon Smirl <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.12-rc1 won't boot if SCSI drivers are selected as modules |
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On Apr 1, 2005 7:17 AM, K.R. Foley <kr@cybsft.com> wrote: > I have an old Dell Precision 620 workstation with dual PIII 933's and > 512 Mb memory. It also uses AIC-7899P U160/m SCSI controllers with one > U160 drive (boot drive) and one slower 18 Gb. I have been running many > different variants of the kernel on this system for quite some time with > much success. However, no amount of gnashing of teeth or pulling of hair > have been able to get this system to boot ANY 2.6.12-rc1 (including > 2.6.12-rc1 vanilla, 2.6.12-rc1-mm3 and various RT patches) variant when > the SCSI drivers are selected as modules (which is the way that I have > always done it). Last night I built all of the necessary drivers into > the kernel and the system boots fine.
I am also seeing this but not on every boot. My work around is to add a 'sleep 2' to the nash script after the modules are loaded. Compling everything in also worked.
This is discussed in the thread: "current linus bk, error mounting root". I believe the answer is that it is not a kernel problem, instead the init scripts have to be fixed.
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