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

[Paul Howarth]

On Sat, 2005-07-02 at 13:41 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Paul Howarth wrote:
> 
> >> 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.
> > 
> > It should include any module listed as a scsi_hostadapter
> > in /etc/modprobe.conf and any dependencies of those modules.
> 
> In my case, some program appends the line
> 
>         alias scsi_hostadapter piix
> 
> to /etc/modprobe.conf ; and mkinitrd fails because 
> it does not find this module.
> When I delete this line - which overrides an earlier
> 
>         alias scsi_hostadapter aic7xxx
> 
> - all goes well.

I wonder how that got there? Multiple scsi adapters are supported - they
use this sort of syntax:

alias scsi_hostadapter0 aic7xxx
alias scsi_hostadapter1 ata_piix

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>