Re: Linux boot disk

[Morten O. <mo...@cg...>]

Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:
> Morten Odgaard <mo...@cg...> writes:
> 
> 
>>But when using a SCSI disk i get:
>>...
>>SCSI subsystem initialised
>>done loading sd_mod
>>Hm, found no hard drives (hda sda) under /sys/block
>>Your /sys/block contains:
>>fd0 ram1 ... ram15
>>So close! Oh, well.
>>*** Dropping to shell
>>
>>Wonder what this means... On the SCSI disk in question there is just a
>>coupple of linux partitions - maybe that's why. I also got an error
>>when booting the CD with an unpartitioned IDE disk. May it just wants
>>a fat/ntfs partition??
> 
> 
> No, it should work even if there are no partitions.
> 
> The sd_mod is the top-level SCSI disk driver.  You still need a
> particular SCSI driver for your network hardware.  I need more
> information about what the script prints just after "*** Excellent.
> Now, let's see about mass storage controllers...".  In particular, I
> need the lspci output for your SCSI controller which should follow
> shortly thereafter, especially the numeric one.  (The scripts run
> "lspci" followed by "lspci -n" on each device.  I am mostly interested
> in the "lspci -n" output.)

OK. I tried again with release 0.2 with the same results:

For the VMware 3.2 IDE disk when no partitions are present (this works
without error when an ntfs partition is present):

...
Making device /dev/hda
Making device /dev/hda[0-9]*
Internal error: /sys/block/hda/hda[0-9]*/dev not found
*** Dropping to shell

lspci -n gives:
00:07.1 Class 0101: 8086:7111 (rev 01)


For the VMware 3.2 SCSI disk:

SCSI subsystem initialised
done loading sd_mod
Hm, found no hard drives (hda sda) under /sys/block
Your /sys/block contains:
fd0 ram1 ram2 ... ram15
So close! Oh, well.
*** Dropping to shell

lspci -n gives:
00:07.1 Class 0101: 8086:7111 (rev 01)
00:10.0 Class 0100: 104b:1040 (rev 01)


The Dell Laptop with 3Com PC Card NIC:

Still just stops with "No network hardware found (missing drivers?)"

lspci -n gives:
00:07.1 Class 0101: 8086:7111 (rev 01)

no lines matches the network device but there are a few CardBus lines:
00:03.0 Class 0607: 104c:ac1c (rev 01)
00:03.1 Class 0607: 104c:ac1c (rev 01)

/sys/bus/pcmcia looks like this:
devices drivers
with no files or subdirectories.

-Morten.