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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=165041813-07052007>I think I've found
the answer to this one.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=165041813-07052007>Point-to-point
topology is not the default for the lpfc driver, therefore, the option must be
specified in a driver config file or modprobe.conf if you are not connecting to
a fabric. And, if you want the file system on the array to mount at boot,
you need the initrd image to correctly load the HBA driver so you can see the
disk. Problem is, the HBA driver loads before "/" is mounted so
initrd can't get options from /etc/modprobe.conf (it's not there
yet). The system then fails to mount file systems on disk that
initrd incorrectly loaded the HBA driver for.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=165041813-07052007>Bottom line, I got
the driver option into initrd by changing modprobe.conf and then rebuilding a
new initrd image.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=165041813-07052007></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=165041813-07052007>mkinitrd -f
/boot/initrd-`uname -r`.img `uname -r`</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=165041813-07052007></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=165041813-07052007>and reboot did the
trick.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=165041813-07052007></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=165041813-07052007>Thank
you.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=165041813-07052007>Tony</SPAN></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>