Adding SCSI support to the Kernel

bobber205 · Guru Joined: 23 Aug 2006 Posts: 561 Location: Oregon

I selected "y" or "*" in makeconfig for my kernel. I have SCSI tape drive that I want to use.

Right now the box is compling the kernel.

The part I'm confused on right now is how to get that kernel to come up as an option on startup.

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/kernel-upgrade.xml

I've been using that document. When it's done compling, will it tell my what to add?

(As it probably obvious, I'm new to Gentoo and linux and especially kernel activities.

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wah · Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 9:32 pm Post subject:

Once it's done compiling...and assuming you're doing manual kernel config (not genkernel)

bobber205 · Guru Joined: 23 Aug 2006 Posts: 561 Location: Oregon

OMG.

I did what you said and where you said to put the new name of the kernel I put

"SnowCrashKernel2.6SCSI"

I went into the file and another entry exactly the same while looking at the good one that I've been using...

Then I rebooted....

For like 3 minutes now all my computer had down is tell me once that xdm did not shutdown or something like that.
Then I got and am still getting delete_path:rmdir(/dev/.udev) failed: Read-Only file System... :evil:

It's going like 1000 miles an hour. Should I restart it manually?

WTF is going on!?

bobber205 · Guru Joined: 23 Aug 2006 Posts: 561 Location: Oregon

Restarted and the system booted up fine.

Now when I come in next week how can I tell if I did it right?