FC2 booting with Gigabyte 8IPE1000 PRO2 SATA
Marc Lucke
marc at marcsnet.com
Sun May 30 01:10:35 UTC 2004
I just googled iscsi & found http://linux-iscsi.sourceforge.net/ so
please ignore that part of my question re FC2 booting with Gigabyte
8IPE1000 PRO2 SATA
Marc Lucke wrote:
> I can get FC2 (kernel 2.6.5-1.358smp) to boot by mounting the initrd;
> editing linuxrc to load the mod_scsi, libata, sd_mod & ata_piix
> modules on boot; and then unmounting and replacing the original
> initrd. This is OK in that it works however from about kernel 2.4.24
> it was unnecessary; the sata drive showed as "hde" and perfomance was
> many times better.
>
> I remember that 2.4.24 didn't seem to have a scsi/sata type section in
> it! I didn't think it would work, first time I did it but it did.
>
> It is the ich5 architecture but for some reason it doesn't seem to be
> as straight forward as it seems it should be.
>
> My ultimate wish is to be able to forget about compiling my own
> kernels or stuffing about with initrd.
>
> I would be so appreciative to hear more about my problem from someone
> that knows about what is causing it. For example, until the next
> kernel is released, is there a reasonably easy way have my system
> booting from hde again? What was the iscsi thing about in the last
> rh9 distrib I had? Would that help me?
>
>
> Cheers
> Marc
>
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