[Thincrust-devel] generating scsi disks

[Bryan Kearney]

Bryan Kearney wrote:
> Resending a bounced message.
> 
> Finally, here is the result:
> 
> the error message I received during the boot was this:
> 
> error mounting /dev/root on /sysroot...
> In this case the problem was caused by two different things:
> 
> 1) missing driver - I had to put mptspi into the initrd
> 2) bug 466607 (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=466607) in f10 -
>    even though the corrected versions of mkinitrd and nash (on both the 
> development system and the thincrust system) that are supposed to fix 
> the bug were installed, I still had to load scsi_wait_scan in the initrd
> 
> Now, how can we do this directly in appliance-creator? One of the 
> comments (#67) rebuilt the initrd in the %post section of the kickstart 
> file. The previous comment to this thread suggests that the list of 
> modules for initrd in appliance-creator can be modified? For vmware, we 
> always need mptspi (at least for esxi) so it would be a good choice to 
> be included in the standard modules.
> 
> Thanks for your help.
> 
> Mike

Does it make sense to add mtspi by default, and the provide the command 
line option for additionaly drivers?

-- bk