[plug] cant boot system any longer

[Tomasz Grzegurzko]

Okay well what kind of scsi (or sata maybe?) controller do you have?
What kernel module supports this hardware? If you boot in to rescue
mode and use tools like lspci or lsmod, you should be able to suss it
out based on the list that helped you successfully boot & install.

Tomasz

On 5/19/06, Rob Dunne <rob.dunne at csiro.au> wrote:
> Tomasz Grzegurzko wrote:
>
> > 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.
> >
>
> in  initrd-2.6.16.16.img in the lib directory there is
> ext3.ko  jbd.ko  megaraid.ko  mptbase.ko  mptscsih.ko  scsi_mod.ko
> sd_mod.ko
>
> I think this is waht should be there (but am not really sure).
>
>
> Bye
> Rob
>
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