Re: insmod driver

[Kevin Colby <kevinc grainsystems com>]

Allen C. Ho wrote:
> 
> I recently rebuilt my kernel (2.0.34). When I tried to mount my scsi hard
> drive using 'mount /dev/sda5 /mnt/sda/usr,' I got the following message:
> The kernel does not recognize /dev/sda5 as a block device (maybe 'insmod
> driver'?). Before this, I could always mount my scsi hard drive this way. I
> made sure the scsi support was included when I configured the new kernel.
> Any idea what's going on?

Did you compile the SCSI support as a module or built-in?
If built-in, yes that should work.
If a module, you'll either need to insmod the SCSI modules
or have kerneld running.  You might check kerneld in your
kernel config.

	- Kevin Colby
	  kevinc grainsystems com


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