Description of problem: Two of our computers have SCSI based CD-ROM's. In both cases the controllers are Adaptec AHA 2940UW......one computer is an old piece of junk (Intel P3, 256 MB RAM) and the other is a newer computer (clone with ASUS motherboard and 1 GB of memory, AMD 3800). In both cases, the CD starts to boot and then gets to a point where it says something to the effect of (I have a hard time reading my handwriting so this may not be exact): Warning: cannot find root file system. Create symlink /dev/root and then exit the shell to continue the boot sequence. Bash: no job control in this shell bash-3.2# Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Very...everytime Steps to Reproduce: 1. Put FC7 Test 4 GNOME based i386 Live CD in drive 2. Try to boot 3. see above Actual results: Screen says: Warning: cannot find root file system. Create symlink /dev/root and then exit the shell to continue the boot sequence. Bash: no job control in this shell bash-3.2# Expected results: It should boot Additional info:
*** Bug 238302 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
This uses the aic7xxx driver? We're not including any of the SCSI drivers right now in the livecd initramfs; adding things like aic7xxx which commonly have a CD drive attached makes sense. I've gone ahead and added aic7xxx; if you need another, just let me know