On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 08:54 -0600, akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 09:25:11PM -0500, Bob Chiodini wrote: > > On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 19:50 -0600, akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > WE are attempting to configure a SCSI machine by loading a running > > > system from a machine with only ide drives. Of course we have changed > > > the grub to access SCSI drives. Also changed the fstab. The machine is > > > a dual processor machine which is all SCSI. > > > > > > Now the machine when booting displays the FC2 grub choice screen. > > > After the choice is made the kernel is accessed but then the machine > > > goes into what seems to be an indefinite hang. But actually, after a > > > half hour or an hour (we have not measured this accurately since it > > > took so long) the machine continues its boot. Now in looking at the > > > system files on the machine we find the strange fact that the /initrd > > > file still seems to contain the files of the ram disk. It is not > > > emptied as it should have been. > > > > > > The system logs shows nothing that indicates delay except the system > > > keeps searching for ide drives that don't exist. > > > We have done this process copying the system in this way several times > > > before with earlier versions of linux but not we can't make it work. > > > > > > Can any one suggest anyplace we can look to identify the problem? > > > -- > > > I am aware of posts by others of slow booting of FC3 but nothing seems > > > to fit this situation. > > > ------------------------------------------- > > > Aaron Konstam > > > > > > Aaron, > > > > Did you make a new initrd RAM disk image containing the SCSI driver? > > You'll need to tell grub the name of the new initrd image if you called > > it something different from the original. You'll need a > > > > alias scsi_hostadapter dddddddddddd > > > > Where dddddddddddd is the name of your scsi driver. > > > > entry in your /etc/modprobe.conf or /etc/modules.conf whichever FC2 > > uses, the latter I think, before you run mkinitrd. > > > > Bob... > Thanks for the response but we did all these things. > -- Maybe some manipulation with rdev is in order. Bob...
