Change Disk from IDE to SCSI using dd, what else ?

[Timothy Murphy]

Paul Howarth wrote:

> Well, anaconda doesn't run mkinitrd directly itself really. What happens
> is that anaconda installs the kernel RPM, and the post-install script
> for the kernel RPM calls /sbin/new-kernel-pkg, which runs mkinitrd (to
> set up a suitable initrd for the target machine) and updates the
> bootloader configuration to include the newly-installed kernel.
> 
> Since this is a function of installing the kernel RPM, it will happen
> during both fresh installs and upgrades.

OK, thank you very much - I have learned a lot!

But how does this program /sbin/new-kernel-pkg know
_which_ scsi driver to install?
In my case, at least, it seems to make the wrong choice.

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