public inbox for gentoo-alpha@lists.gentoo.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: "Brian Parkhurst" <brianp@spamcop.net>
To: <gentoo-alpha@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: [gentoo-alpha] 2.6.8 kernel and SWXCR (Mylex DAC960) controller
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 19:31:36 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <002401c4ada8$1d6c6310$3301a8c0@ICHIRO> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 01LFS8KJ7SF68WWK3W@cluster.cwu.edu

After many months of trial and error.  (Actually having the time to really
dig into it more).
I've managed to interpret the DAC960.c source code to determine what the
devfs names might be under the 2.6.8 kernel.
FYI  (my root partition is the 2nd partition on the 1st Logical RAID 5
drive) (2 Logical volumes total)

My /etc/fstab
#Linux 2.6
/dev/rd/host0/target0/part1     none    swap    sw      0 0
/dev/rd/host0/target0/part2     /       ext3    noatime 0 0
/dev/rd/host0/target1/part1     /export ext3    noatime 0 0


#Linux 2.4
#/dev/rd/disc0/part1    none    swap    sw      0 0
#/dev/rd/disc0/part2    /       ext3    noatime 0 0
#/dev/rd/disc1/part1    /export ext3    noatime 0 0

My aboot.conf
0:2/boot/kernel-2.4.21-alpha-r12 root=/dev/rd/disc0/part2 console=ttyS0
console=tty0 initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.21-alpha-r12 init=/linuxrc
2:2/boot/kernel-2.6.8-gentoo-r6 root=/dev/rd/host0/target0/part2
console=ttyS0 console=tty0 initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.8-gentoo-r6 init=/linuxrc

The key I found for this to work properly was to make certain the devfs file
system was properly compiled into the kernel and automounted the relevant
portions of my .config.

My .config file:
CONFIG_DEVFS_FS=y
CONFIG_DEVFS_MOUNT=y

Brian Parkhurst
brianp@prodigy.net


--
gentoo-alpha@gentoo.org mailing list


  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-09  2:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-08 15:03 [gentoo-alpha] Problem installing gentoo linux/genkernel environ on alpha platform Bill.Glessner
2004-10-08 15:28 ` Fluff
2004-10-08 16:33   ` Bill.Glessner
2004-10-09  2:31     ` Brian Parkhurst [this message]
2004-10-09 22:57 ` Tony Hammond
2004-10-11 17:40   ` [gentoo-alpha] Portage problem Brian Parkhurst
2004-10-11 18:56     ` Brian Parkhurst
2004-10-11 19:07       ` Brian Parkhurst
2004-10-13  5:22         ` Brian Parkhurst

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to='002401c4ada8$1d6c6310$3301a8c0@ICHIRO' \
    --to=brianp@spamcop.net \
    --cc=gentoo-alpha@lists.gentoo.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox