initrd.img module loading

[Edward F. Brown]

Is there a particular reason "sda' has to be assigned to this drive?  I
understand that it would be great if linux allowed more determination over
drive letter assignments, I've wrestled with this too.  But is there an
issue for which a workaround hasn't been suggested?

-Ed


> I created a new initrd and tried to use it as part of the install. But
> this didn't work. I understand what your steps are doing, but that
> doesn't work for what I need.
>
> I have to make sure that the aacraid module gets loaded first so that it
> will be sda. Your ideal works, but it is after the fact, which means
> that if I do it in the %post like you said, the machine would not be
> bootable, since the drives that were attached to the megaraid card were
> formated and setup as the root device and the new initrd will load the
> aacraid first, which will having nothing on it.
>
> Ron
>
> On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 13:39, Peter Eisch wrote:
>> Did you try rebuilding the initrd.img using something like:
>>
>> /sbin/mkinitrd --preload scsi_mod --preload sd_mod --with aacraid \
>>     --with megaraid --with aic7xxx --with eepro100 --with bcm5700 \
>>        /boot/ninitrd-%{KVERREL}.img %{KVERREL}
>> /bin/mv /boot/initrd-%{KVERREL}.img /boot/oinitrd-%{KVERREL}.img
>> /bin/mv /boot/ninitrd-%{KVERREL}.img /boot/initrd-%{KVERREL}.img
>>
>> I put this in my kernel's %post so it gets done at boot, but do the same
>> kind of thing with the initrd.img on the install media.
>>
>> peter
>>
>> On 2/22/05 12:38 PM, "Ronald Reed" <rreed at ops.sgp.arm.gov> wrote:
>>
>> > I have found that the scsihosts= boot line command is only for kernels
>> > that have the modules built into the kernel, but no other resolution
>> has
>> > been found.
>> >
>> > I have tried the device parameter in the kickstart file, but anaconda
>> > seems to ignore them. Anyone have any other ideals? Here is a portion
>> of
>> > my kickstart file:
>> >
>> > #kickstart file (partial)
>> > install
>> > cdrom
>> > lang en_US.UTF-8
>> > langsupport --default en_US.UTF-8 en_US.UTF-8
>> > device scsi aacraid
>> > device scsi megaraid
>> > device scsi aic7xxx
>> > device eth eepro100
>> > device eth bcm5700
>> > keyboard us
>> > mouse genericwheelps/2 --device psaux
>> > skipx
>> > network --device eth0 --bootproto dhcp --hostname nfs-basic
>> >
>> > Ron
>> >
>> > On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 12:27, Ronald Reed wrote:
>> >> No, I need the drive letter assignments to be different.
>> >>
>> >> Ron
>> >>
>> >> On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 11:58, Ed Brown wrote:
>> >>> The --driveorder option won't change the drive letter assignments,
>> but
>> >>> it will change the drive that grub is installed to.  Isn't that what
>> you
>> >>> are after?  In your case, you probably want:
>> >>>
>> >>> bootloader --driveorder=sdb,sda --location=mbr
>> >>>
>> >>> -Ed
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 10:53, Ronald Reed wrote:
>> >>>> Yes, the aacraid device get set to /dev/sdb. The accraid device is
>> a
>> >>>> mirrored pair of 36GB drives that are inside the hardware. The
>> megaraid
>> >>>> device is a Raid 5 group of 4 73GB drives (3 in the array, and 1
>> hot
>> >>>> spare). The megaraid is to be used for NFS file storage and the
>> accraid
>> >>>> is to be used for the system drive.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Ron
>> >>>>
>> >>>> On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 11:47, Brian Long wrote:
>> >>>>
>> >>>>> What does it detect the aacraid device as?  /dev/sdb?  If so, why
>> don't
>> >>>>> you use the bootloader option mentioned previously to get grub to
>> use
>> >>>>> sdb as the boot drive?
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> /Brian/
>> >>>
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