[SSI-users] Re: Error Installing OpenSSI 1.2.2 on Debian SARGE kernel 2.4.27

[Robert S. <rob...@ep...>]

Maurice Libes <Maurice.Libes <at> com.univ-mrs.fr> writes:

> 
> Eduardo Spinola wrote:
> > Greetings,
> > 
> > We have been trying to instal OpenSSI on a Dell machine (PowerEdge
> > 2800) with Debian SARGE kernel 2.4.27. We have used the following
> > Debian Repositories:
> > 
> > http://radian.org/openssi-deb/openssi-v1/
> > 
> > On the first reboot after installing OpenSSI, on the OS
> > initialization, this error came up:
> > 
> > "Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:00"
> > 
> > The machine stops on this error and refuses to continue initialization.
> > 
> > After that, we reinstalled Debian and OpenSSI, using the same
> > repositories, and the same error came up again, even when we used the
> > following command:
> > 
> > mkinitrd -o initrd-img-2.4.22-1.2199.nptl-ssi-686-smp
> > 2.4.22-1.2199.nptl-ssi-686-smp
> > 
> > Does anyone now what to do to workaround this problem, or had any
> > similar experience? This Dell machine uses a SCSI interface, so is it
> > possible that the problem comes from this?
> 
> yes...
> it is symptomatic of a kernel which is looking for it's scsi hard disk
> and it can't acces it because the SCSI  module is not loaded by the 
> kernel , and is not present in the initrd file
> 
> you just need to set the name of the modules in /etc/mkinitrd/modules
> before installing openssi
> the modules present in this file will be integrated in the initrd boot file

Hi!

I am expiriencing the same problem.

It has nothing to do with harddisk drivers for SCSI or IDE.

Device 01:00 is the RAM disk (initrd). The kernels provided within the debian
packages are not able to mount their initrd because they have the cramfs driver
itself compiled as a module. This is the classic hen/egg problem.

Could this be fixed, please?

Has anybody had success with the debian packages?