boot strangeness - FC2 scsi

[akonstam at trinity.edu]

WE are attempting to configure a SCSI machine by loading a running
system from a machine with only ide drives. Of course we have changed
the grub to access SCSI drives. Also changed the fstab. The machine is
a dual processor machine which is all SCSI.

Now the machine when booting displays the FC2 grub choice screen.
After the choice is made the kernel is accessed but then the machine
goes into what seems to be an indefinite hang. But actually, after a
half hour or an hour (we have not measured this accurately since it
took so long) the machine continues its boot. Now in looking at the
system files on the machine we find the strange fact that the /initrd
file still seems to contain the files of the ram disk. It is not
emptied as it should have been.

The system logs shows nothing that indicates delay except the system
keeps searching for ide drives that don't exist. 
We have done this process copying the system in this way several times
before with earlier versions of linux but not we can't make it work.

Can any one suggest anyplace we can look to identify the problem?
-- 
I am aware of posts by others of slow booting of FC3 but nothing seems
to fit this situation.
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Aaron Konstam
Computer Science
Trinity University
One Trinity Place.
San Antonio, TX 78212-7200

telephone: (210)-999-7484
email:akonstam at trinity.edu