megaraid doesn't load

brendagies · n00b Joined: 25 Jun 2004 Posts: 3

I've been trying to get Gentoo installed on a Gateway 7450R, PIII 933 dual processor, AMI 493 raid controller server. I'm using Knoppix 3.2 for the live CD. I have the SCSI drivers compiled with the kernel (gentoo-dev-sources) rather than loading as modules. My problem is that on reboot, I see the Adaptec driver loading and then it looks like the megaraid driver is skipped, then kernel panic (can't find device sda3).
My partitions are:
/dev/sda1 ext2 boot
/dev/sda2 swap swap
/dev/sda3 ext2 root
My fstab file reflects this as well.

Grub looks like
default 0
timeout 30
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.5
root (hd0,0)
kernel /kernel-2.6.5-gentoo-r1 root=/dev/sda3

I've tried Lilo and no luck either.

I have the newest firmware loaded for the server and the raid card. I should also note that Knoppix 3.3 and Knoppix 3.4 do not seem to load the megaraid driver either.

I've read many posts and tried quite a few things to get running but no luck. Any other ideas? Thanks in advance.

cbock · Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2004 3:35 pm Post subject:

i have a 3ware 7500-4 raid controller. i too used gentoo-dev-sources. i was unable to get grub to work with it. here's my lilo.conf hopefully, it will help

brendagies · n00b Joined: 25 Jun 2004 Posts: 3

I just tried using Lilo with the append="devfs=mount" but get the same kernel panic. I wish I could read everything that is trying to load - it scrolls up on the screen so fast that I miss something between the Adaptec 7892 and the kernel panic.
I might try sdb3 for the root and see what happens. Maybe the live cd recognizes the drive as sda and the kernel recognizes it as sdb or something. ??
If that doesn't work, I'm toying with the idea of combining the root and boot partitions and starting over.....

cbock · Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2004 4:45 pm Post subject:

did you compile devfs support into the kernel?

brendagies · n00b Joined: 25 Jun 2004 Posts: 3

Yes I did. Seems very strange....