[Thincrust-devel] generating scsi disks

[Joey Boggs]

Yeah, we should probably minimally add a few scsi/network modules for 
different virtualization products. Currently vmware can boot the ide 
disks based off the shared ata_piix modules as well as kvm. Not sure 
what the other products might use.

Bryan Kearney wrote:
> 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
>
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