"Kevin D. Kissell" wrote: > On another topic, now that I've patched the kernel to > turn off the stupid stuck interrupt on my Malta board, > I've realized that I can't just connect my old Atlas SCSI > disk. I'm torn between ordering a Tekram 390 PCI > SCSI card, which should be able to use our "MIPS > safe" NCR driver as-is (I hope) and buying an IDE > disk and going through the network install ritual. > Which do you recommend? One thing I really never > knew was just what kernel config options I need to > select to build a kernel that can do the NFS-root > bootstrap. Can you help me there? > Kevin, If you store your kernel image on flash and boots from there, using a local hard disk is not a bad idea. I recently used a SCSI card based on NCR 53C895A. I have to turn off some optimization in the driver in order to get it work. See some related configs below. CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX=y # CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX is not set CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_DEFAULT_TAGS=0 CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_MAX_TAGS=32 CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_SYNC=0 In general NFS root is always easier to get kernel going. Many defconfigs under arch/mips/ already have NFS root fs configured as default, at least in the two I put in, DDB5476 and ocelot. Jun
