From: sno@ais.org (Stephen Opal) Subject: More SCSI mounting help needed. Date: 30 Dec 1992 01:48:51 GMT
I wish to thank the linux community for the assistance offered! I have
discovered my problem, and it has to do with the a1 boot disk in the
SLS distribution. For some reason, that particular kernal construction
is having difficulty noticing my SCSI device.
I was fortunate to have another linux user (plph@engin.umich.edu) local to
me to offer me an alternative kernal to experiment with. This kernal has
acknowledged my SCSI device with no difficulty except that he has a bug in
his finish for installing the rootdisk. However, the kernal configuration
he uses is with Enabled SCSI support for both 1540 and 1740 Adaptechs,
and turned off tape and cd support.
Therefor, it appears that I either need a new SLS a1 disk available to me
or I completely new strategy. Since SLS a1 builds a root in ram and
then links /user into that, I'm not sure how I can build a new a1 disk
myself. I have yet to have any success actually reading a disk from the
a: drive when I remove that a1 disk from it. It won't mount because linux
thinks it is already mounted, however, there is no directory linked to
the device, and no entry in df or /etc/mtab for /dev/df0.....
I am willing to do just about anything to get past this SCSI acknowledgement
problem, including rebuilding from a raw kernel (if I can get away with it).
-- Stephen N. Opal sno@umcc.ais.org