Forum Thread trying to resolve this issue: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=187415 Reproduction: Always, just boot from the LiveCD. I am installing Gentoo on a DEC AlphaServer 4100, using LiveCD 1.4rc1-test4. SCSI cd-rom (dka500) works fine. (/dev/sr0) 2-disk RAID1 (dra0) and 5-disk RAID5 (dra1) have no entries in /dev (no sd* entries) /dev/scsi contains host1 Results from lsmod: sym53c8xx: used by 1 qlogicisp: (unsued) (unloading/relaoding qlogicisp changes nothing) Info from dmesg: qlogicisp : new isp1020 revision ID (5) scsi0: QLogic ISP1020 SCSI on PCI bus 01 device 10 irq 40 I/) base 0x200008400 sym0: <810> rev 0x2 on pci bus 1 device 1 function 0 irq 56 sym0: No NVRAM, ID 7, Fast-10, SE, parity checking sym0: SCSI BUS has been reset. scsi1: sym-2.1.17a Vendor: DEC (...) Type: CD-ROM (...) Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi1 channel 0, id 5, lun 0 sym0:5: FAST-10 SCSI 10.0 MB/s ST (100.0 ns, offset 0) sr0: scsi-1 drive It seems (to a noob) that while the controller card (qlogicisp) is detected and the driver loaded, the disks just don't appear.
I just tried the experimental LiveCDs (gentoo-alpha-20040225 and gentoo-alpha-2004.0-20040313). The problem remains, but the modprobe/lsmod results are different, as it looks like the drivers are now compiled into the kernel instead of being modules.
Please use the CD located in the /experimental/alpha/livecd/ directory on your local Gentoo mirror, as it is much newer and probably includes lots of fixes since the 1.4 release. I am adding alpha@gentoo.org to the CC list, so they are aware of the problem and can research it.
Ignore my comment... ;] Alpha guys... any ideas?
I just had some free time to poke around at this... I discovered that the HDs actaully aren't attached to the QLogic card - in fact, nothing is! So, Gentoo is actually doing things correctly. The HDs are actually connected to a Mylex DAC960LB, but there are no modules for this controller on the LiveCD. All I need to get past this now is a way to get the Mylex driver for the install... Is this possible?
The 1.4-test1 LiveCD has the DAC960 driver. Unfortunately, the later LiveCDs I made don't have it. The 2004.2 LiveCD will have it, as well as the BSD disklabel support 1.4-test1 doesn't.
Hmmm. There is indeed DAC960 on the 1.4-test1 LiveCD. However, during the startup process (just after it tells you what boot options are available), it tries to find the DAC960, and gets a seg fault. This is before things appear in dmesg, so I can't easily replicate the exact context or text here. Once the boot is completed, lsmod show the DAC960 as present but "(initializing)"... I left it a while, and it never finished initializing. What can I do?
