On Sun, 2006-10-08 at 22:07 +0100, Aaron Gray wrote: > Jeff Vian wrote: > > On Sun, 2006-10-08 at 16:28 +0100, Aaron Gray wrote: > > > > > Added scsi to grub kernel line, and its not hanging now. Doing a > > > reinstall did not solve the problem, probably needed to do a "linux > > > scsi" or something at install startup ??? > > > > > > I did not have to do a "scsi" on the startup command line on our SCSI > > > RAID servers they were fine installing Fedora. Maybe because they boot > > > on SCSI ??? > > > > > > Anyone set me straight on this area ? > > > > > If the scsi module was not previously loaded then the initrd did not > > know how to configure the new adapters. Using scsi on the kernel line > > told it to load the scsi modules. > > > > The servers that had scsi installed when the OS was installed already > > 'knew' about the modules needed. A server that did not already have > > scsi installed would not automatically load the module so you had to > > tell the kernel scsi was needed. > > > > To fix that you need to make sure the scsi module is loaded either from > > the kernel line or from a line in modprobe.conf for now. A kernel update > > done after the scsi module is active should put it into the initrd image > > and should automatically handle that afterward. > > > > > Thanks for the explanation. > > Does that mean if I install Fedora using 'linux scsi' then it will use > an initrd with scsi drivers installed in the image ? AFAIK it should. Maybe someone with experience will chime in, but try and see. The worst that can happen is it fails again.
