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Script files, documentation, etc. for installing Gentoo on ZFS root direct from livecd (work in progress...)
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LiveCD does not support SCSI #2

Open ryao opened 12 years ago

ryao commented 12 years ago

I gave your LiveCD a try, but it does not contain SCSI drivers. I am using those to do development in VMWare Player because I find SCSI to be more efficient than IDE.

If you do a respin of your LiveCD, please consider including SCSI drivers in it.

pendor commented 12 years ago

That seems odd. I'm using the cd right now on VMWare Fusion with VMWare's LSI / FusionMPT based driver. The livecd autodetects everything from a default VMWare setup without any trouble.

I've dropped a copy of the VMWare config file I'm using here:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/34890805/GenZfsInstallTest.vmx

-Zac

On Feb 1, 2012, at 2:59 PM, Richard wrote:

I gave your LiveCD a try, but it does not contain SCSI drivers. I am using those to do development in VMWare Player because I find SCSI to be more efficient than IDE.

If you do a respin of your LiveCD, please consider including SCSI drivers in it.

Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/pendor/gentoo-zfs-install/issues/2

ryao commented 12 years ago

I am using the pvscsi device, which is probably the reason we are having different results. pvscsi is more efficient than lsilogic on vmware.

pendor commented 12 years ago

I don't think Gentoo's stock installcd includes that. The kernel config I built with was extracted from the most recent installcd's /proc/config.

I'm planning to re-roll the installcd at least with renamed spl, and possibly with stock portage tree for ZFS (have a few issues I still need to patch ebuilds for, but I think they're only applicable to booting from ZFS). I'll see if I can get the various VMWare pv drivers in when I redo it.