Greetings,

On Sunday 19 October 2003 16:42, Matthias Teege wrote:
> Moin,
>
> i try to install Rock from the
> drock-2.0.0-rc1-rev1165-x86-pentium-mmx-cd1.iso in a vmware virtual
> machine. It works without problems after I load the BusLogic module
> by hand before I run stone.
>
> After the package installation I get the configuration menu and try
> to setup lilo.conf but the tool cant find vi. So I let
> "autogenerate" the lilo.conf and install lilo.
>
> After shutdown the system reboots but can't detect the SCSI drive
> of the vmware machine. There is no problem with the CD ROM but this
> comes via SCSI emulation (i think).

Just a few questions to make things clear: vmware emulates a virtual machine
with both HD and CD-ROM SCSI drives? And after installing Rock on the HDD and
booting from the HDD the linux kernel does not load the appropriate SCSI
driver (BusLogic as you said)?
To boot from a drive the appropriate driver has to be compiled into the kernel
binary. Supplying the driver as a module is not enough because the kernel
does not know how to load modules from a disk until the disk driver is
loaded. As you wrote you had to load the BusLogic _module_ by hand, whereas
compiled-in drivers are loaded at kernel boot time.
So a solution would be to use a kernel with a compiled-in BusLogic driver. If
you think this might work, but don't know how to get your hands on such a
kernel, feel free to mail to the rock-linux list again. You are always
welcome.

Have a nice day,

        Stefan Fiedler

> Many thanks
> Matthias

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