booting Gentoo guest: can't find SCSI target boot disk on LSI53C1030 host bus

[LevT]

when I start a handmade system it does not boot.

Fusion MPT base driver 3.04.02

Fusion MPT SPI Host driver 3.04.02

ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:10.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 177

mptbase: Initiating ioc0 bringup

ioc0: 53C1030: Capabilites=

scsi0: ioc0: LSI53C1030, FwRev=00000000h, Ports=1, MaxQ=128, IRQ=177

Vendor: Vmware Model: Virtual disk Rev:1.0

Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02

target0:0:0 Beginning Domain Validation

target0:0:0 Domain Validation skipping write tests

target0:0:0 Ending Domain Validation

target0:0:0 FAST-160 WIDE SCSI 320.0 MB/s DT IU RDSTRM RTI WRFLOW PCOMP (6.25 ns, offset 127)

SCSI device sda: 83888608 512-byte hdwr sectors (4295MB)

sda: test WP failed, assume Write Enabled

sda: cache data unavailable

sda: test WP failed, assume Write Enabled

sda: cache data unavailable

sda: sda1 sda2 < sda5 >

sd 0:0:0:0 Atached scsi disk sda

selected lines are missing in my handmade system (Fusion MPT base driver 3.04.04) and kernel panics therefore .

How to fix this?

TIA

[jccoca]

It boots before or It never boots? Change the SCSI adapter to buslogic and try.

[LevT]

Gentoo installation CD boots and sees scsi targets on LSI Logic, and Debian etch is also running installed in a neighbour guest on LSI Logic. Why should I change this host adapter and not try to fix it?

[LevT]

Of course I have read this and followed the instructions, but missed something subtle. I have ho clue what exactly.

[LevT]

oh sorry probably I have read another version of this howto.