SCSI help with Netra t1

kellstr · n00b Joined: 20 Nov 2006 Posts: 2

I got through the install and rebooted the box and got this:

TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 16384)
Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM
VFS: Cannot open root device "sda1" or 08:01
Please append a correct "root=" boot option
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:01
Press L1-A to return to the boot prom

In the silo.cnfg file "root=/dev/sda1". Is my problem with the silo.conf or with the SCSI drivers that are loaded? What can I do to get my box to boot?

Kel

i-right-i · Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 7:58 pm Post subject:

Most likely you do not have the SCSI drivers built into your kernel. If you emerge the gentoolkit and do a "lspci", what do you get? The Netra T-1 105's and 200's use the Symbios Driver not the SUN LSI Logic one. Its a little misleading.

Assuming you are using a 2.6 kernel.

Goto Device Drivers
Then SCSI Device Support
then SCSI Low-Level Drivers
and the one you want should be the "SYM53C8XX Version 2 SCSI Support" driver

Save that rebuild your kernel and boot to that and you should be ok. This is assuming you have your /etc/fstab and yout silo.conf entries correct.

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Weeve · Retired Dev Joined: 30 Oct 2002 Posts: 641

Just for clarification, lspci comes from the sys-apps/pciutils package.

i-right-i · Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 11:30 pm Post subject:

Weeve, thanks for pointing that out. I had one thing in my head but wrote another.... Dang dyslexia.

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