Re: FC2 booting with Gigabyte 8IPE1000 PRO2 SATA

[Marc Lucke <marc@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I just googled iscsi & found http://linux-iscsi.sourceforge.net/ so 
please ignore that part of my question re FC2 booting with Gigabyte 
8IPE1000 PRO2 SATA

Marc Lucke wrote:

> I can get FC2 (kernel 2.6.5-1.358smp) to boot by mounting the initrd; 
> editing linuxrc to load the mod_scsi, libata, sd_mod & ata_piix 
> modules on boot; and then unmounting and replacing the original 
> initrd.  This is OK in that it works however from about kernel 2.4.24 
> it was unnecessary; the sata drive showed as "hde" and perfomance was 
> many times better.
>
> I remember that 2.4.24 didn't seem to have a scsi/sata type section in 
> it!  I didn't think it would work, first time I did it but it did.
>
> It is the ich5 architecture but for some reason it doesn't seem to be 
> as straight forward as it seems it should be.
>
> My ultimate wish is to be able to forget about compiling my own 
> kernels or stuffing about with initrd.
>
> I would be so appreciative to hear more about my problem from someone 
> that knows about what is causing it.  For example, until the next 
> kernel is released, is there a reasonably easy way have my system 
> booting from hde again?  What was the iscsi thing about in the last 
> rh9 distrib I had?  Would that help me?
>
>
> Cheers
> Marc