Re: New kernels cannot find boot disk on SUSE

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Bosley Blinker wrote:
> Has anyone experienced problems booting newer kernels on SUSE 10.2.  I
> can build and boot 2.6.20.1, but when I tried to move to 2.6.23.12 it
> fails with the following message:
>  
>     Waiting for device /dev/sda2 to appear:...
>  
> This message is coming from the script linuxrc, which is generated by
> mkinitrd and executed during the startup.  I have no modules except
> scsi_wait_scan.ko.  The configuration for this module has changed and
> currently there is no option to change it to a built-in module.  I tried
> editing the make file for this module to force it to be built into the
> kernel, but it still did not work.
>  
> I suspect there has been a change to SCSI that the mkinitrd script for
> SUSE has not accounted for.
>  
> -Bos
> 

Try adding the module without the .ko to INITRD_MODULES and possibly
also to MODULES_LOADED_ON_BOOT in /etc/sysconfig/kernel. This will need
to be done before running make modules_install and make install.

-- 
	kr

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