From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
To: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: CONFIG_SCSI_WAIT_SCAN=m
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 11:34:17 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1175013257.3737.21.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0703271658380.26754@blonde.wat.veritas.com>
On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 17:25 +0100, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> I'm not using an initrd, most of my kernel is builtin,
> just a few modules for occasional filesystems.
>
> CONFIG_MODULES=y
> CONFIG_SCSI=y
> CONFIG_SCSI_SCAN_ASYNC=y
> CONFIG_SCSI_WAIT_SCAN=m
>
> 2.6.21-rc5-mm2 VFS panics unable to find my root on /dev/sda2,
> but boots okay if I change drivers/scsi/Kconfig to "default y"
> instead of "default m" for SCSI_WAIT_SCAN.
Hmm ... it sounds like there's a missing scsi_complete_async_scans() in
your environment? What's your configuration ... which SCSI drivers, and
which are modules?
scsi_wait_async_scan is supposed to be unnecessary unless you have
modular SCSI drivers that the initrd needs to wait for root on.
James
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-27 16:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-27 16:25 CONFIG_SCSI_WAIT_SCAN=m Hugh Dickins
2007-03-27 16:34 ` James Bottomley [this message]
2007-03-27 17:16 ` CONFIG_SCSI_WAIT_SCAN=m Hugh Dickins
2007-04-03 16:54 ` CONFIG_SCSI_WAIT_SCAN=m Hugh Dickins
2007-04-06 15:51 ` CONFIG_SCSI_WAIT_SCAN=m James Bottomley
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