28469 – genkernel 1.7 and 3ware

Bug 28469 - genkernel 1.7 and 3ware

Summary: genkernel 1.7 and 3ware

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Hosted Projects
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	genkernel (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Daniel Robbins (RETIRED)

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Reported:	2003-09-11 12:44 UTC by Daniel Robbins (RETIRED)
Modified:	2003-09-11 20:51 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-09-11 12:44:55 UTC

On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 13:32, Karl Huysmans wrote:
Hi all,
> 
> Honestly, I still can't figure out how initrd is created by genkernel. I
> got a 3ware with 4 45 Gig disks connected (RAID 10). My entire system is
> on this RAID.
> 
> Tried to build a kernel (2.4.22) with genkernel (1.7), 3ware as module.
> During boot, initrd seems to load (detecting storage, detecting usb or
> something like that) but the 3ware modules are not loaded, kernel panics
> because it doesn't find /root.
> 
> Solved the problem by re-compiling the kernel (genkernel --config) with
> 3ware built-in, no problems.
>

Comment 1 Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-09-11 20:51:36 UTC

should be fixed in genkernel 1.8. Closing bug. modules weren't getting copied to the initrd correctly in 1.7.