>>>>> "Jose" == Jose M Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Jose> The installer makes a pretty good estimate of your SCSI
Jose> devices then creates an INITRD image which contains the
Jose> appropriate modules.
Would it make sense to run the installer in expert mode and have it do
its thing with the new card?
Jose> If yours is not booting from a SCSI drive or has a SCSI hard
Jose> disk, you could omit the initrd entry in /etc/lilo.conf, run
Jose> lilo and be done.
Thanks, this seems to be what I needed to know. I am now booting
fine. As you point out, this wouldn't be the case if I were trying to
boot from the SCSI drive, but I'm not.
Jose> But if the system needs to find a SCSI
Jose> hard drive initially (so it can FSCK, etc. or boot from it)
Jose> you need a new initrd image that has the module for your new
Jose> scsi card.
And something else, because just running mkinitrd didn't work.
Laura> I want to get this off before I try rebooting. I've run:
Laura> cd /boot
Laura> mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.4.3.later 2.4.3-20mdk
Laura> rm initrd.img
Laura> ln -s initrd-2.4.3.later initrd.img
Jose> Eh, you also have to specify WHICH SCSI modules it has too
Jose> preload on the mkinitrd command line.
The mkinitrd man page says:
man> mkinitrd automatically loads IDE modules, all
man> scsi_hostadapter entries in /etc/modules.conf, and
man> raid modules if the system's root partition is on
man> raid, which makes it simple to build and use kernels
man> using modu� lar device drivers.
So this looks like a bug. In any case, I ran:
mkinitrd --with=advansys /boot/initrd-2.4.3.advansys 2.4.3-20mdk
and linked boot.img to the output, and when I booted it still tried to
load the old module. So there's something I still don't understand
about initrd's, but since I don't really need them, I won't worry
about it.
I do think someone at Mandrake should be worrying about the problem of
how you document hardware changing, though. A lot of stuff "just
works", but for the stuff that doesn't, like removing a network
interface and changing SCSI cards, we need better documentation than
I've managed to find.
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