As I first tried gentoo I encountered a really an annoying blocker: The cdrom could not be mounted for the simple reason, that my SCSI-Controller could not be detected when I boot with 'gentoo doscsi' The drivers for these really advanced adapter series (Fibre Channel, SCSI, iSCSI ...) are in the kernel for ages: I'm talking about the FusionMPT drivers which can't be found under the regular 'scsi-tree' in the kernel configurator and they consist of several modules. Is it possible to heave these drivers in the detection routine?
WTF can I do else than this bugreport :( I posted in several forums and here but nobody tells me what I can do :(
Well thanks for not caring about this nice bug!
We are currently in -rc phases of livecds, a scsi adapter will not be added to the detection routine until after this phase. (some adapter modules will lockup other cards). You can look at the alternate install documention. or hookup a ide cdrom to install at this time.
Ok, Problem is, that I want to install on 4 Maxtor Atlas 10K disks which are obviously scsi. Maybe it would sufficient to put the compiled mpt modules on the cd that users like me can load them manually. I need to install with livecd as I want to have EVMS which insn't easy to handle when you want to have it from scratch.
the lastest experimental livecds have fusionMPT compiled as modules
Well I don't think so. I've downloaded 1.4 final for PIII and i can't find this module! Or do I have to get an 1.5beta or something like that?
Mhhh, no clue here....
This bug has been inactive for a year or more and is arguably no longer relevant. It is marked as a critical bug, that will probably be fixed in the next release. Can it be closed now?
old bug, reopen if necessary
