YDL 3.0 catch-22

[nathan r. hruby]

On Sat, 10 May 2003 somersam@attbi.com wrote:

> 
> My root partition is on a wide SCSI drive on the Adaptec SCSI bus.  The
> SCSI driver won't load until the root partition is mounted but the root
> partition can't be mounted until the SCSI driver is loaded.  So, I've
> resigned myself to having to rebuild the kernel.

Err.. This is what initrd is for (else I wouldn't be able to boot my raid 
array!)  Are you sure the initrd is loaded/ing?  Is there one?

> 
> Is the YDL 3.0 kernel source distribution already configured for the kernel executable that was 
> shipped?  I'd rather not have to figure out what else I need to include, exclude, or specify as a 
> loadable module.

AFIK, the kernel-sources package include the config file for the as 
shipped kernel (it should) if you find this to not be the case, I;d 
suggest filing a bug at bugs.terrasoft.com and maybe asking here and 
someone can probably produce one for you easily.

-n
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