[plug] cant boot system any longer

[Tomasz Grzegurzko]

Rob Dunne wrote:
> 
> Hi Tomasz,
> 
> I have
> CONFIG_SCSI=m
> 
> is this the problem?
> 
> I can still boot by selecting an older kernel during the boot process 
> but I was hoping that a 2.6 kernel would fix some otehr problems.
> 
> Bye
> Rob
> 
> 
> 

Okay scsi is a module. When your system boots, unless it has an extra 
source of drivers to fetch (this means an initrd/initramfs), its not 
going to load the modules for your scsi/sata hard drive, and therefore 
not make the device node for /dev/sda (as there's no scsi support at 
that stage in boot).

Then the next thing to check is your initrd; does that have the scsi 
module for your specific hardware? Eg. If I booted a system with an 
AHA2940, I need the aha2940 driver either in the kernel (compiled 
statically, which is not the case for your scenario) or in an 
initrd/initramfs so the system can load this ramdisk, load the modules 
within, and continue booting to find the root device.

Tomasz