[Gllug] Linux on a box with mixed discs

[Chris Bell]

On Fri 14 May, Martin A. Brooks wrote:
> 
> Hi Chris,
> 
> On Friday, May 14, 2004, Chris Bell wrote:
> 
> >    I find that booting hangs because the system tries to fsck.ext2 check the
> > filesystem on the SCSI drive before the SCSI bus has been scanned for
> > devices, so the drive is not seen.
> 
> It will only do this if you've not either included SCSI support in the
> kernel statically, or not told it to load the SCSI modules at boot
> time.
> 
> A quick workaround would be to edit /etc/fstab and comment out the
> SCSI disk(s).  Boot the system and recompile the kernel to statically
> include appropriate SCSI support.  Uncomment the entries in /etc/fstab
> and reboot. That should fix it.
> 
> 
> --
> Martin A. Brooks, Clues Ltd.
> http://www.clues.ltd.uk/
> 

   This is during the initial installation/reboot, so I have little control
over the contents of the kernel. The problem appears to me to be that the
SCSI bus has not been scanned before the fsck.ext2 check rather than the
required modules not being loaded, and if I restart the boot sequence with
Ctrl D that is almost the first thing that is done.

-- 
Chris Bell

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