From: Michele Andreoli (m.andreoli@tin.it)
Date: Thu Feb 15 2001 - 21:16:23 CET
On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 08:57:06PM +0200, Vesa-Pekka Palmu nicely wrote:
> > Hi, a question from a mulinux starter.
> > I have tried different 11rX versions to clone mulinux to HD on two
> > different machines, equipped with Adaptec SCSI.
> > The target is to boot and work without a floppy.
> > Using floppy based mulinux with SRV is ok. Access to the scsi hd
> > without problems.
> > Loading stops with : "Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs
> > on 08:03 "
> > Ext2 and UMSDOS installation: the same problem.I have read the
> > docs and tried, first time, to understand some scripts. But I didn't
> > find the answer. Mulinux cannot find the scsi modules. Am I right?
> > Every hint is welcome.
>
> This sounds like the famous chicken and the egg problem, the
> kernel needs the SCSI module to load the module form the SCSI
> disk... so the solution is to use initrd, but I donät know much about
Perfect. In my previous email I spent some hundred lines to explain
confusely what you summarized in such "crystal clear" way.
Bravo, Mr.Vesa-Pekka Palmu!
Michele
P.S.
What the first name? Vesa-Pekka? Is there some indoeuropean
equivalent?
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