When trying to boot from the universal minimal CD, with smp doscsi I get hung up each time at the step "Scanning for a100u2w...". I have a Fusion MPT scsi system in the box I am tring to boot this on. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Insert CD 2.type smp doscsi at the command prompt Actual Results: System Hang Expected Results: Continued Boot process System is a dual processor p4 xeon with LSI SCSI system.
See http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=995721 for additional descriptions and other cases.
Just for completeness: A simple workaround is to boot without the scsi option and manually modprobe the required modules.
Booting without doscsi and using modprobe isn't an option for me since I have no ATA controller in the server. It's SCSI only with sym53c8xx controlling the CD-ROM and cpqarray for the disk array. If I don't use doscsi to detect the sym53c8xx controller, the boot drops me to a prompt and tells me to 'fix my shit.' I read in the forums that someone was able to simply insmod at this point and ^D to continue, but that never worked for me. Once I ^D, the system would just hang.
As a side note, when using the single cpu image (gentoo doscsi), there is no problem, at least in the power to prompt phase.
I am also experiencing this problem with the 1st test-isos I created. It seems to be a problem with that specific driver. Since it prevents other SCSI-Users (I think this is a very rare piece of Hardware - correct me if I'm wrong) from using the CD properly, this driver will be taken out of the kernel-config.
*** Bug 45984 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Moving these so we can remove the "Install CD" component from "Gentoo Linux". I apologize to everyone for this spam, but according to the bugzilla developers, this is the only reasonable way to do this.
