I've never myself done anything w/ SCSI drives (other than ide-scsi emulation for CD-Writing pre kernel 2.6), but I thought SCSI harddrives were usually /dev/sd?, while IDE drives were /dev/hd?.
>From /usr/src/linux-2.6.7/Documentation/devices.txt: 8 block SCSI disk devices (0-15) 0 = /dev/sda First SCSI disk whole disk 16 = /dev/sdb Second SCSI disk whole disk 32 = /dev/sdc Third SCSI disk whole disk ... 240 = /dev/sdp Sixteenth SCSI disk whole disk Partitions are handled in the same way as for IDE disks (see major number 3) except that the limit on partitions is 15. Good luck, Conway S. Smith John T. Williams wrote: > I've been having the hardest time getting a kernel I've compiled to > work. I've compiled kernels at least a dozen times and this is the > first one that has given me any real trouble. I think the issue might > be the scsi hard-drive. > > I've compiled in scsi support ( actually in, not as module ), but every > time I try to boot the kernel, i get the error > > VFS unable to mount root fs on /dev/hdf1 > > and a kernel panic. > > the kernel uses devfs and I'm passing the kernel > > root=/dev/hdf1 devfs=mount > > as I said, I'm pretty sure its the scsi harddrive that is giving me > problems as its the only thing in this situation that I've never had to > deal with before, but even with that insight I haven't been able to > figure out how to get the kernel. > > Thanks, > John > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs