Re: [gentoo-dev] experimental liveCD

[Pieter Van den Abeele <pvdabeel@gentoo.org>]

The ppc kernel scsi stuff has been an enourmeous pita to me when building
the livecds. When some drivers are enabled, the kernel seems to hang on
non-scsi machines. The help information provided by make menuconfig also
most of the time doesn't mention what drivers work on ppc, and what
drivers don't.

I know my quest for the perfect kernel .config is not over yet. Expect a
lot of updated livecds with mostly updated kernels before I start
improving it feature-wise. Feel free to send me your .config or enlighten
me on what scsi stuff needs to be enabled on ppc.

Pieter

On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, Eric Sammer wrote:

> Stewart Honsberger wrote:
> <snip>
> > However,
> > it appears that the CD doesn't initialize my SCSI controller, or SCSI
> > support and there don't appear to be any SCSI-related modules to load to
> > diagnose the problem.
> <snip>
>
> I ran into the same issue with the hardware: G3 (B/W) 400mhz, Adaptec
> 2940 SCSI controller, Seagate Baracuda 10000rpm UW 18GB. The issue was
> with the 1.4 "final" cd that was recently released. Again, with only
> 128M of ram and little time, I didn't want to try and build a kernel. I
> found that the RC6 version of the ppc livecd *does* have all the popular
> SCSI modules you'd expect. That said, the RC6 cd has a million other
> "issues" that were cleared up by 1.4 final. If you're comfortable fixing
> some files, it will get you going in the interim.
>
> HTH.
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> Eric Sammer
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