[Voyage-linux] Re: Voyage 0.5.2 and VMWare

[Ryan Harden]

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Thanks for the help. I've tried switching between LSI Logic and
BusLogic, neither work. I'm unable to switch to emulated IDE drives as
ESXi does not allow it when you only have SCSI drives in the server.

I haven't worked on this for a few weeks in hopes that my mind was just
looking over something trivial. I'm planning to start back up soon.

I'm also kind of waiting for voyage 0.6.0, but that seems to be slow going.

/Ryan

Russell Lang wrote:
> Ryan wrote: 
> 
>> As and update on this. I pulled down a vanilla 2.6.27.7 kernel from
>> kernel.org and edited it to my liking. I compiled in the important
>> SCSI stuff and made every other SCSI option a module. I then created an
>> initrd image with all of these modules. In theory this should have let
>> my kernel boot using any (known to linux) SCSI controller. 
> 
>> However, I ran into the same problem where the kernel is not loading
>> the SCSI drivers and therefore not able to mount /. 
> 
>> I'm not sure what my next steps should be. 
> 
> I've seen a related problem.  There was an incompatibility with one of the 
> VMware virtual SCSI adapters and the driver in some versions of Linux.
> 
> The workarounds were to boot from IDE, or when making the Virtual Machine to 
> specify a custom set up and to select the LSI Logic SCSI rather than BusLogic 
> SCSI (I think).  One worked with OpenSuse9 and the other one didn't.  If you 
> don't use the custom configuration for the VMware guest, you don't get the 
> option to choose the type of SCSI adapter.
> 
> 
> Russell Lang                   gsview at ghostgum.com.au
> Ghostgum Software Pty Ltd      http://www.ghostgum.com.au/
> 
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