On Sat, 2006-03-18 at 01:24 -0500, Douglas Gilbert wrote: > Ah, if scsi_debug is a module, nothing is going to > load it automatically (at least the PCI subsystem > won't load it). However if it is built in then > it will "steal" /dev/sda (if some other SCSI LLD > hasn't already got it). That would then cause > a SATA driver to get /dev/sdb ... That is enough > to cause a kernel parameter like "root=/dev/sda8" > to flounder and give the "could not find root filesystem" > error. Is there actually any purpose for not compiling scsi_debug as a module? i.e. isn't the problem really that we simply shouldn't allow it to be built directly into the kernel and it should only be compilable as a module? James - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
