OK, what about a compromise.
The fundamental problem that we all agree on is that SCSI devices are detected
in the order that the mid-layer hosts.c file calls their detect routines.
Further, for multiple cards of the same type, the detection order is up to the
individual driver. A different
"J . A . Magallon" wrote:
Average users you are targetting with that automagical
card detection even do not know there are SCSI and IDE disks. They just
want a 30Gb ide disk to install linux and play. If they involve with SCSI
and ID numbers and multiple cards and so on they can read some
Michael Meissner wrote:
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 12:32:05AM +0100, J . A . Magallon wrote:
If that is your idea of the average user... You're a system administrator,
you can have tons of scsi cards in your system if you want.
You want to make things SOOO easy for a 'dummy' user, and
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 10:49:05AM -0500, Venkatesh Ramamurthy wrote:
Hi,
I have one issue which requires fix from the linux kernel.
Initially i put a SCSI controller and install the OS on the drive connected
to it. After installing the OS (on sda), the customer puts another SCSI
Are your two SCSI controllers handled by the same driver or through
different ones? If they're handled by two separate drivers, simply
build that one you need to boot off into the kernel and build the
other one as a module.
[Venkatesh Ramamurthy] Different ones with mutiple
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Can the linux kernel be changed in such a way that kernel will look
for the actual boot drive and re-order the drives so that mounting can
go on in the right order.
we need some kind of signature being written in the drive, which the
kernel will use for determining
On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Michael Meissner wrote:
you're forgetting that in /etc/lilo.conf there is a directive called
'append='... all the user has to do is merely add
'append="scsihosts=whatever,whatever"' into their config file and rerun
lilo. problem solved
That's assuming you are
When the cards are of different make the order is solely dependent on
the order that the drivers are initialized in the kernel. If you have
modules enabled, only build the driver for your root device into the
kernel image and have the other modular. This lets you control the
initialization
thy"
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Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 5:19 PM
Subject: RE: Linux not adhering to BIOS Drive boot order?
It should be possible to read the BIOS setting for this option and
behave accordingly.
Venkatesh Ramamurthy wrote:
Hi,
I have one issue which requires fix from the linux kernel.
Initially i put a SCSI controller and install the OS on the drive connected
to it. After installing the OS (on sda), the customer puts another SCSI
controller. The BIOS for the first controller has
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