gentoo linux server up and running
She’s up — on a Dell Poweredge 1550. The only snafu I found was that booting the universal CD with the doscsi option loaded up a bunch of scsi drivers (necessary for accessing the SCSI drive), but when compiling the kernel (with default options), they were not built in, but rather loaded as modules. So when I booted up the newly configured kernel, the modules to load the scsi drive were on the scsi drive! A chicken-and-egg problem, indeed.
So, compiling the Adaptec AIC7xxx drivers into the kernel as well as the MegaRAID (both old and new for safety), she booted up like a champ!
If you’ve stumbled upon this, and having similar problems:
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# make menuconfig (in /usr/src/linux)
Now, select -> SCSI low-level drivers, and go to town, building them in (*) and not as (M) modules.
use dmesg’s output to help….
I’m running kernel 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 kernel, now. Hope this helps someone!
