Bug 25894 – SCSI CDRom support in experimental kernel

• Status: VERIFIED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Steven Faulconer 2003-08-04 12:01:49 UTC]

I'm attempting to install the experimental version on a dual processor Ultra60.
Booting either the gentoo or gentoo-smp kernel results in the following message:

Mounted devfs on /dev
tar: /ram/cdrom/etc.tar: no such file or directory
tar: /ram/cdrom/var.tar: no such file or directory
chroot: cannot exec /sbin/init

Perhaps SCSI CDRom support was not added to the boot kernel?

[Comment 1 Todd Sunderlin (RETIRED) 2003-08-04 18:46:18 UTC]

I tried it as well, got similar error.

[Comment 2 Todd Sunderlin (RETIRED) 2003-08-04 18:46:18 UTC]

I tried it as well, got similar error.

þtar: /ram/cdrKernel panic: Attempted to kill init!
 Press L1-A to return to the boot prom
om/etc.tar: No such file or directory
tar: /ram/cdrom/var.tar: No such file or directory
chroot: cannot execute /sbin/init: No such file or directory

Ultra 5, Sun SCSI card.

[Comment 3 Jason Wever (RETIRED) 2003-08-09 06:50:09 UTC]

This is due to the fact that I modularized some but not all of the SCSI drivers in the kernel. I'll fix this in a new version of the LiveCD

[Comment 4 Jason Wever (RETIRED) 2003-08-11 16:09:35 UTC]

Please try the latest experimental LiveCD on the mirrors under experimental/sparc/livecd/sparc64/gentoo-sparc64-1.4_rc4-11Aug2003.iso.bz2.  This should fix your problem.

Thanks.

[Comment 5 Steven Faulconer 2003-08-12 09:49:36 UTC]

Weeve,

New kernel boots fine on my Ultra60, running the bootstrap right now. Thanks for the effort to get it fixed!

SMF

[Comment 6 Jason Wever (RETIRED) 2003-08-12 14:45:46 UTC]

Another happy customer :)

[Comment 7 Jason Wever (RETIRED) 2003-08-17 07:42:42 UTC]

Closing