Is it still referenced in /etc/sysconfig/hwconf ? I had a sorta similar thing happen once where I changed out some HW and let kudzu do it's thing but things did not go well. Seems /etc/sysconfig/hwconf still had the old HW in it. My solution ended up being moving /etc/sysconfig/hwconf to something like /etc/sysconfig/hwconf.old and re-running kudzu-- everything was hunky-dory thereafter. It appears that /etc/sysconfig/hwconf gets used if it exists but if it doesn't then kudzu regenerates it. --greg On Thu, 2004-04-29 at 16:27, Steve Linabery wrote: > Hi, > > 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