Steve Linabery wrote: >Hi, > > > my guess would be that you need to rebuild the initrd image, under redhat it is mkinitrd command, it has some options for inclusion or ommision of the modules from the initrd image. look in the man. I advise you make a second entry in you bootloader ( lilo or grub whatever your choice is) and place a new entry with a new initrd image into it, in case something goes wrong. of couse you can bootup with an old initrd image via kernel options , but for that keep it intact. what I want to say is watch your step :) you are on the right track guess you probably figured out this whole thing by yourself by the time you get the reply :) >I have a problem with one of my hosts. Hoping to get some helpful >advice. > >I have a server that has undergone a change of scsi adapters. When I >first built this machine, I used an adaptec IDE RAID controller to >mirror two hard drives. This first controller used the dpt_i2o driver. > >Then I decided to put a RAID-5 array in there using linux software RAID. >So I took out the IDE RAID controller, rebooted and let kudzu "see" that >the IDE controller was gone. > >I installed an adaptec 29160 which uses the aic7xxx driver. Kudzu seemed >to recognize it, but then I had to insmod the aic7xxx.o module to see >any of the connected drives; after that everything seemed fine, and I >got my raidtab set up and--hooray--everything was hunky dory. > >Upon a later reboot, however, things went south. Something or other was >still trying to load dpt_i2o. To wit (from dmesg): >RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 >Freeing initrd memory: 208k freed >VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). >SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 >Loading Adaptec I2O RAID: Version 2.4 Build 5 >Detecting Adaptec I2O RAID controllers... > >If /etc/raidtab and /etc/fstab reference my RAID array, then the machine >won't boot; goes to a RAID repair shell. Even if I change >/etc/modules.conf to include aic7xxx, the initrd image still seems to be >wanting dpt_i2o on boot. Kudzu isn't kudding it! > >If I'm here in the building when the machine needs to be powered down >for some reason, it's inconvenient but not a big deal...I just clear >/etc/raidtab and take the entry out of /etc/fstab, reboot, insmod >aic7xxx, restore /etc/raidtab and /etc/fstab, raidstart, and mount -a. > >But if, say, power goes out and the machine boots on restore >power...while I'm on vacation...you get the idea. > >I don't really know how to make a new initrd image, particularly >considering that this machine is RH9.0 (running 2.4.20-28smp kernel by >the way) and I've only recompiled a vanilla kernel in the past---don't >want to hose the RH9.0 installation by trying to recompile kernel >without knowing how it needs to be configured for RH9.0 to stay happy. > >OK, please excuse this garrulous post and let me know if anybody has any >of the aforementioned helpful advice. > >Thanks in advance!!! >Steve > > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list