It's just a troubleshooting step to eliminate possibilities. I've heard of issues with Redhat's hardware detection on bootup. I don't know how to fix that but if you try the modprobe thing and it works, then you know where the problem is and a Redhat guy offer up a solution.
Grigsby, Garl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote*: > >Bob, > I think that would work, in a duct tape and bailing wire sort of >way, but I am trying to understand how I am supposed to get this to >work. > No, I do not have to pass any information to modprobe on the >command line for the ncr53c8xx. > Redhat 7.2 or 7.3. Can't remember at the moment. > >Garl > >-----Original Message----- >From: Bob Crandell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 8:29 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [EUG-LUG:3479] Re: Help with loading modules > > >What if you "/sbin/modprobe ncr53c8xx" before the mount commands? > >Does ncr53c8xx require anything on the command line? > >What distribution is this? > > >Grigsby, Garl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote*: >> >>Help. Well I just had a scsi card die in one of my linux servers. After >>a fair about of digging about, I found a replacement, but it is not >same >>brand/model as the original card. I have done what I thought I needed >to >>do to get the system to automatically load the module for this card at >>boot, but it refuses to do so. I can manually load the module and it >>works. I can mount the drives, copy files, etc. but no matter what I >do, >>it refuses to load at boot. >> >>Originally I had a Buslogic BT-946C in the machine and my >>/etc/modules.conf file looked like this: >> >>alias scsi hostadapter BusLogic >>alias eth0 3c59x >>alias parport lowlevel parport pc >> >>After installing the replacement card, a NCR 53c825, I modified the >>/etc/modules.conf file to this: >> >>alias scsi hostadapter ncr53c8xx >>alias eth0 3c59x >>alias parport lowlevel parport pc >> >>The problem is I keep getting this message: >> >>kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi hostadapter, errno = 2 >> >>At this point the boot process halts (as it can't mount three disks) >and >>goes into maintenance mode. If at this point I run a 'insmod ncr53c8xx' >>I can mount the missing disks and then switch to init 3 and everything >>works. What am I missing?!? >> >>Please help, before I pull the rest of my hair out..... >>Garl >> >> >>======================================================================= >>Garl R. Grigsby >>Senior Customer Applications Engineer - I-DEAS CAE & FEMAP Support >>----------------------------------------------------------------------- >>EDS PLM Solutions Phone: (800)955-0000 >>Global Technical Access Center FAX: (541) 342-8277 >>1750 Willow Creek Circle Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Eugene, OR 97402 Internet: http://www.plmsol-eds.com >>======================================================================= >> -FEA makes a good engineer great, and a poor engineer dangerous- >>======================================================================= >> >> >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >www.assuredcomp.com >Eugene, Or. 97402 > -- Bob Crandell Assured Computing When you need to be sure. Cell 541-914-3985 FAX 240-371-7237 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.assuredcomp.com Eugene, Or. 97402
