Hey all

Compiled the new 2.6.8.1 kernel. Video is OK, sound is OK. Seems a little
sluggish but I found some clues to that this morning.

My big issue right now is accessing my USB thumbdrive. Under the old kernel
I was mounting sda1. Now I don't have sda1 under /dev and there doesn't seem
to be anything to replace it. During boot up I see that the drive is detected and
using scsi emulation. I selected scsi and usb support when configuring the
kernel. Have I left something out or is there a different method of access with
2.6.8.1

cheers

Did you make sure you also compiled USB mass storage driver into your kernel (or as a module) as well?

Yes, usb_storage was compiled as a module. That's why I
am confused at this point. Everything seems GO. Help!

I had a similar problem. I was also mounting my usb drive at /dev/sda1. I tried

cat /dev/sda1

and was told it didn't exist. I then tried

cat /dev/sda and it was there. So I edited my fstab, left the original usb entry as it was and added another which pointed to /dev/sda. Now the new mount point didn't work but the original did. /dev/sda1 had suddently appeared. I have no idea why this happened. I don't know if this helps.

No not really. This is it in a nutshell. After booting to kernel 2.6.8.1.
I no longer have sda1 or any sdax device listed under /dev. As far
as USB goes, my jumpdrive is detected all USB and SCSI support
appears to be in order. There just doesn't seem to be a device
to mount it to.

cheers

Are you using udev ? Hotplug enabled ? When you boot, all your modules are loaded ? (if not, try add /sbin/modprobe <module> in /etc/rc.d/rc.modules)

As far as I can tell all the USB, usbcore, usb_storage, uhci/ehci (?) and SCSI appear
under lsmod. Lsusb shows the jump drive in the port. I'm not familiar with udev yet.
What does that do?

udev create on the fly the /dev devices files based on infos provided with /sys directory, it works with hotplug too. There is a startup script (/etc/rc.d/rc.udev), to be enabled, it needs to be executable (chmod +x)

OK!

Fixed the problem. Recompiled the kernel without SCSI EMULATION .
Used only Generic SCSI support and SCSI Disk support .
The devices SDA and SDA1 have reappeared
in the /dev folder and I was able to mount the USB drive.