On Thursday 13 February 2003 21:12, Marco De Maddalena wrote:
Hello, I am trying to install Suse8.1 professional on a dual proc AMD MP1600+ with 512MB DDR on a Scsi disk with a 2940 controller. After the (apparently) successful installation, at the first reboot it says: kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno=2
then it enters into a loop, looking at each of the 16 Scsi IDs, and complaining about each of them. At the end (10 minutes later) it says:
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k block-major-8, errno=2 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
It tryed different disks, formatting with different FS type (ext2, ext3, raiser) but nothing changes. The last try was to use a Ide disk: it rebooted without problems, but as soon as I put the Scsi controller, even with no devices connected, I got again the same error message.
It seems it does not like Scsi controller (I also tryed with a 29160)
I had a very similar problem with my dual PIII box, which also has SCSI disks hanging off a 2940 controller. I found it would boot from the CD, but not the hard disk after installation. i.e. I loaded the kernel from CD then "booted an installed system" via YaST, and it worked. You won't like what I found. I can't remember the details now, but the installation had completely screwed up the kernel it put on the hard disk. I seem to remember it had one kernel to boot, and the modules from another. The SCSI module which it was trying to load from ramdisk at boot time either wasn't from the SMP kernel, or was from the -4GB kernel, not the -64GB kernel, or something like that. Get the system booted from the CD, then have a very careful look at the RPMs installed. Which kernel package has it installed? Which modules are present? Does everything match up correctly? In my case I had to build my own kernel to sort the mess out. If you're not happy to do that, this might be one time when the SuSE installation support people can help you. -- Microsoft Palladium: "Where the hell do you think YOU'RE going today?"