How to boot from LSI SCSI or ADAPTEC SCSI

[Paul Howarth]

Longming Lee wrote:
> I have a external SCSI DISK ARRAY, and I have installed RH9 at the PC with
> LSI SCSI now.

You do realise that this is a Fedora list, not a Red Hat Linux list?

  I want to install Adaptec SCSI(ASC-29160) driver more.
> And then this SCSI DISK ARRAY can boot from PC with ASC-29160 at once,
> if the LSI SCSI is broken down.
> 
> The /etc/modules.conf now is:
> alias eth0 e1000
> alias eth1 e1000
> alias scsi_hostadapter mptbase
> alias scsi_hostadapter1 mptscsih
> alias usb-controller usb-ohci
> 
> How should I do and then the SCSI DISK ARRAY can boot from LSI SCSI
> or ASC-29160?

Try adding:
alias scsi_hostadapter2 aic7xxx
to /etc/modules.conf

You'll then need to re-run mkinitrd to build a new initrd for your 
kernel. The exact command line for running this will depend on what 
kernel you're running, but it'll be something like:

# mkinitrd -v /boot/initrd-2.4.20-42.9.legacy 2.4.20-42.9.legacy

You may wish to copy your existing initrd to a safe place first, or 
create a new bootloader entry for a new initrd with a new name.

Paul.