Mark Knecht wrote:
Disk druid may not support "simulated" SCSI drives (like the 1394).
That requires the "sg" driver. You could install and use fdisk to
partition it, as you said fdisk sees it.
Is this a driver that can be somehow passed to Linux Install at the command
line so that it could see the 1394 drive?
It's already there, since fdisk can see the drive. I don't think disk
druid will talk to "sg" drives. You can install and use fdisk to do
the partitioning rather than DD and since fdisk _can_ see the drive, you
may get by that way.
One other thought. The machine already has everything on the EIDE drive. Can
I somehow just copy the partitions from the EIDE drive to the 1394 drive,
and then make a new fstab file that replaces hda5 with sda3, etc? I might
have to blow away /var or something, but that wouldn't bother me at all.
I think that'd work. You may have to rebuild the initrd image and
force-feed it the sg driver because once the basic system comes up, it
will "pivotroot" to /, and since that's on the 1394 drive, you'll need
the sg driver to see it.
After building the system and copying your /, /usr, and /var to the 1394
drive, do an "lsmod" and get a list of all the modules needed for the
1394 to work, then rebuild initrd via:
cd /boot
mkinitrd -f [--with=module ] initrd-version.img version
e.g.
mkinitrd -f --with=sg --with=sr_mod initrd-2.4.20-9.img 2.4.20-9
(repeat the "--with=" for each module you think you need). mkinitrd is
supposed to read /etc/modules.conf (to include any SCSI modules you
need) and /etc/fstab (to get a list of modules necessary to support
the root filesystem, e.g. ext3 and such) before writing the image, but
I don't know how reliable that is. You can also add a "-v" to get it to
spew messages about what it's doing and make sure the needed modules get
in there.
I know nothing of doing this, other than the standard part of starting Linux
where it asks you if you want to do things like this...
I think it's an "sg" issue, not a SCSI issue (I've installed HUNDREDS of
RHs on SCSI drives).
I'll do some googling. Thanks!
Good luck, kemosabe!
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