On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 13:46 +0000, Barry Samuels wrote:
He thinks he has. :-))
I have built in IDE support (see my first post for config options), USB support (see below for config options) and SCSI support (see my 4th post for config options) but NOT SCSI emulation (Do I need that with a 2.6.8 kernel?).
This is a guess and not an informed opinion but I assume that if they had dropped the SCSI emulation requirement then the USB attached drive would not be still running on SCSI disk device nodes.
I read the article, Wayne, but wonder if this applies to a 2.6 kernel. I did mention that I'm using kernel 2.6.8 but I don't know if that will be drastically different from a 2.4 kernel.
I think at least parts of it are still relevant (perhaps not the rescanning SCSI bit) if only because it seems that your failure is happening at the same point as described in the article (when the kernel takes over disk access from the USB bios boot mode)
I tried "append = "rootdelay=10" in the image section but noticed no delay in boot up and it still failed. Should there be a noticeable delay?
Hmmmm..thinking
In one random straw clutching moment I was thinking that devfs may be needed for usb storage in 2.6.8 (do the earlier 2.6 series kernels still use devfs rather than udev) I am wondering if the usb mass storage driver can not create the device nodes without it...If I had not left my USB drive at work I would be trying to append devfs=mount as well.