FC5 and SCSI
Aaron Gray
angray at beeb.net
Sun Oct 8 21:07:26 UTC 2006
Jeff Vian wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-10-08 at 16:28 +0100, Aaron Gray wrote:
>
>> Added scsi to grub kernel line, and its not hanging now. Doing a
>> reinstall did not solve the problem, probably needed to do a "linux
>> scsi" or something at install startup ???
>>
>> I did not have to do a "scsi" on the startup command line on our SCSI
>> RAID servers they were fine installing Fedora. Maybe because they boot
>> on SCSI ???
>>
>> Anyone set me straight on this area ?
>>
> If the scsi module was not previously loaded then the initrd did not
> know how to configure the new adapters. Using scsi on the kernel line
> told it to load the scsi modules.
>
> The servers that had scsi installed when the OS was installed already
> 'knew' about the modules needed. A server that did not already have
> scsi installed would not automatically load the module so you had to
> tell the kernel scsi was needed.
>
> To fix that you need to make sure the scsi module is loaded either from
> the kernel line or from a line in modprobe.conf for now. A kernel update
> done after the scsi module is active should put it into the initrd image
> and should automatically handle that afterward.
>
>
Thanks for the explanation.
Does that mean if I install Fedora using 'linux scsi' then it will use
an initrd with scsi drivers installed in the image ?
Aaron
>
>>
>> Aaron
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Aaron Gray
>> To: For users of Fedora Core releases
>> Sent: Sunday, October 08, 2006 2:52 PM
>> Subject: FC5 and SCSI
>>
>>
>> I have two SCSI cards but neither seems to be working. They
>> both seem to hang startup after UDEV, hanging for more than 5
>> minutes.
>>
>> They are an Adaptec AHA2920 and a BusLogic ???
>>
>> Any help welcome,
>>
>> Aaron
>>
>>
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