Hi Pat, thanks for Your fast reply, but that isn't it. I did exactly what You wrote before, so the sym53c8xx and scsi disk IS in config flagged with "Y". When I compare the top of the logs, there's already something different. The original kernel loads ramdisk first and later finds the cramfs and mounts it. The new kernel does a chrp-boot... Must really have to do with initrd/cramfs/ramdisk.
BTW I just want to build my own kernel to get rid of the IDE support in the original kernel, since the "noprobe" kernel argument doesn't work and this adds about 2 minutes boot time for probing something, that isn't really there. Maybe noprobe is fixed in a newer kernel, but as far as I know, 2.6.11 is the last 32bit-smp-kernel. And although I'm on a 64-bit machine, I'd like to use the 32-bit environment for compatibility reasons to an older ppc-machine here. Regards, Ralph > -----Urspruengliche Nachricht----- > Von: Patrick Finnegan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Gesendet: Freitag, 26. August 2005 17:24 > An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org > Betreff: Re: kernel compile on RS6000 7043-260 > > > On Friday 26 August 2005 08:44, Ralph wrote: > > Hi ! > > > > As I finally do have my 7043-260 up and running with > > kernel 2.6.11 power3 smp, I went to try to build my > > own kernel. Needless to say: not very successfull. > > > Although I did (as one can read in lots of howtos) configure > > all the important modules to drive my disk as mandatory, the > > new created kernel does always the same when it should do > > something different, as the log of my good old kernel shows. > > Must be something with initrd/cramfs/ramdisk, when i interpret > > the logfiles in the right way... > > (see logs below) > > > > What am I doing wrong ? > > It looks like you're not including the correct SCSI driver: > > Make sure that "SYM53C8XX" under "SCSI low-level drivers" is turned on, > as well as "SCSI disk support". I'd compile those into the kernel > ("Y") instead of as modules, just to be safe. > > Pat > -- > Purdue University ITAP/RCS --- http://www.itap.purdue.edu/rcs/ > The Computer Refuge --- http://computer-refuge.org > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
