On Sat, 2005-07-02 at 11:54 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Paul Howarth wrote: > > > Well, anaconda doesn't run mkinitrd directly itself really. What happens > > is that anaconda installs the kernel RPM, and the post-install script > > for the kernel RPM calls /sbin/new-kernel-pkg, which runs mkinitrd (to > > set up a suitable initrd for the target machine) and updates the > > bootloader configuration to include the newly-installed kernel. > > > > Since this is a function of installing the kernel RPM, it will happen > > during both fresh installs and upgrades. > > OK, thank you very much - I have learned a lot! > > But how does this program /sbin/new-kernel-pkg know > _which_ scsi driver to install? > In my case, at least, it seems to make the wrong choice. It should include any module listed as a scsi_hostadapter in /etc/modprobe.conf and any dependencies of those modules. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
