Re: 2.6.12-rc1 won't boot if SCSI drivers are selected as modules

["K.R. Foley" <kr@cybsft.com>]

Jon Smirl wrote:
> 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.

I will give this a try. Although I did compare the init from a working 
initrd with the init from a non-working initrd, with no differences :-/

> 
> 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.
> 
I figured it probably had been discussed if anyone else was having this 
problem, it's just that I have been pretty scarce in the last couple of 
weeks. I did try searching the archives but that didn't produce any 
help. ;-) I will go back and take a look at this thread.

Thanks much.

-- 
    kr