Well here is one thing, looking at your grub.conf it shows that you do not have an initrd image. Here is the chicken and egg thing comes into play, how is your kernel going to talk to the boot drive with out the module to do it. You can get around this in two ways. 1. Build it into the kernel 2. Build a initrd or ramdisk image with the modules needed to boot I hope this helps explain what was going on Josh Close wrote: > I figured it out after looking at forums.gentoo.org for a while. > > I needed BusLogic-SCSI built into the kernel and not as a module. No clue > why. I doesn't recognize the scsi controller without it. > > -Josh > > > > >>-----Original Message----- >>From: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org >>[mailto:tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org]On Behalf Of Josh Close >>Sent: Monday, June 28, 2004 11:43 AM >>To: 'TCLUG Mailing List' >>Subject: RE: [TCLUG] aic7xxx kernel module >> >> >>I tried appending that and it didn't work. >> >>I'm getting this error. >> >>VFS: Cannot open root device "sda3" or unknown-block(0,0) >>Please append a correct "root=" boot option >>Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) >> >>I set up grub like this >> >># grub >>grub> root (hd0,0) >>grub> setup (hd0) >>grub> quit >> >>I did this because (sd0,0) wasn't found and (hd0,0) found my >>partitions. >> >>My grub.conf file looks like this >> >>default 0 >>timeout 10 >>splash..... >> >>title=Gentoo Linux (development-sources-2.6.6) >>root (hd0,0) >>kernel /development-sources-2.6.6 root=/dev/sda3 doscsi >> >>It still didtn't work with the doscsi at the end. >> >>Any other suggestions? >> >>-Josh >> >> >> >> >> >>>-----Original Message----- >>>From: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org >>>[mailto:tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org]On Behalf Of Jason Sievert >>>Sent: Monday, June 28, 2004 11:19 AM >>>To: TCLUG Mailing List >>>Subject: Re: [TCLUG] aic7xxx kernel module >>> >>> >>>It is in the grub.conf file append it to the end of your kernel line >>>Here is my grub.conf file >>> >>>title GNU/Linux 2.6.5-r1 >>>root (hd0,0) >>>kernel /kernel-2.6.5-gentoo-r1 doscsi >>>initrd /initrd-2.6.5-gentoo-r1 >>> >>> >>>Josh Close wrote: >>> >>>>I'm not familiar with that. Could you explain it a little? >>>> >>>>Is it a kernel options? Or is it in the grub.conf file? >>>> >>>>-Josh >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>>-----Original Message----- >>>>>From: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org >>>>>[mailto:tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org]On Behalf Of Jason Sievert >>>>>Sent: Monday, June 28, 2004 9:48 AM >>>>>To: TCLUG Mailing List >>>>>Subject: Re: [TCLUG] aic7xxx kernel module >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>One thing on gentoo distros is that for scsi to work a lot of >>>>>the time >>>>>you need to pass the kernel option of "doscsi" to get it to >>> >>>even look >>> >>>>>for scsi hardware. >>>>> >>>>>Jason >>>>> >>>>>Josh Close wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>>Whatis the aic7xxx kernel module called under "make menuconfig"? >>>>>> >>>>>>I've done a gentoo install and when the livecd booted, I >>>>> >>>>>had to "modprobe >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>>aic7xxx". When I finished and restarted the computer, the >>>>> >>>>>kernel couldn't >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>>find the hard drive due to the scsi raid controller. I >>>>> >>>>>think I just need to >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>>load this module. >>>>>> >>>>>>-Josh >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>_______________________________________________ >>>>>>TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>>>>>Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: >>> >>>http://plone.mn-linux.org >>> >>>>>>Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test >> >>http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery >> >>>>>>tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>>>>>https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >>>>> >>>>>_______________________________________________ >>>>>TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>>>>Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: >> >>http://plone.mn-linux.org >> >>>>>Got pictures for TCLUG? 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