I have a new HP xw9300 workstation and the 2006.0 universal install cd. The system has 2 u320 scsi disks and a dvd/cd combo. No device files are created for sda and sdb. boot options: gentoo doscsi. Blow is a section of the dmesg file: ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[0060b00000183853] device-mapper: 4.4.0-ioctl (2005-01-12) initialised: dm-devel@redhat.com Unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffc20010088008 RIP: [<ffffffff88113368>] PGD 17fc40067 PUD 17fc41067 PMD 17f0d4067 PTE b000a00050163 Oops: 0009 [1] SMP CPU 2 Modules linked in: fdomain BusLogic aic7xxx aic79xx scsi_transport_spi sg dm_mirror dm_mod pdc_adma sata_mv ata_piix ahci sata_qstor sata_vsc sata_uli sata_sis sata_sx4 sata_nv sata_via sata_svw sata_sil24 sata_sil sata_promise libata sbp2 ohci1394 ieee1394 sl811_hcd ohci_hcd uhci_hcd usb_storage usbhid ehci_hcd usbcore Pid: 3756, comm: insmod Not tainted 2.6.15-gentoo-r5 #1 RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff88113368>] [<ffffffff88113368>] RSP: 0000:ffff81017e565ef8 EFLAGS: 00010246 RAX: 0000000000000005 RBX: 0000000000000008 RCX: ffffc20010088008 RDX: ffffffff88114540 RSI: 0000000000000032 RDI: ffffc20010088003 RBP: 0000000000000008 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffffffff803ef900 R13: 00007fffffcdcc10 R14: ffffffff88115520 R15: 0000000000000000 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffffffff80478900(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b CR2: ffffc20010088008 CR3: 000000017fcce000 CR4: 00000000000006a0 Process insmod (pid: 3756, threadinfo ffff81017e564000, task ffff81017e573220) Stack: 0000000000000000 ffffffff88115520 ffffffff88115900 ffffffff803ef900 00007fffffcdcc10 0000000000576730 0000000000576710 ffffffff88113887 ffffffff803ef940 ffffffff8811705b Call Trace:[<ffffffff88113887>] [<ffffffff8811705b>] [<ffffffff80145900>] [<ffffffff8010d852>] Code: 0f b6 01 3a 02 75 5d 48 ff c1 48 ff c2 ff ce 75 ef 41 8b 80 RIP [<ffffffff88113368>] RSP <ffff81017e565ef8> CR2: ffffc20010088008 GDT-HA: Storage RAID Controller Driver. Version: 3.04 GDT-HA: Found 0 PCI Storage RAID Controllers imm: Version 2.05 (for Linux 2.4.0) Fusion MPT base driver 3.03.04 Copyright (c) 1999-2005 LSI Logic Corporation Fusion MPT SPI Host driver 3.03.04 Fusion MPT FC Host driver 3.03.04
What troubleshooting steps have you taken? Any? What SCSI controller do you have? Is your DVD SCSI? If not, try booting without "doscsi" as it is 100% unnecessary on any machine except those with SCSI optical media. Have you tried booting with: "gentoo-nofb nosmp nolapic noapic acpi=off"
this issue is caused by a mising driver for the LSi Logic LSI 53C1030 SCSI chipset. Sorry guys, my humble apologies
