boot strangeness - FC2 scsi

[akonstam at trinity.edu]

On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 09:25:11PM -0500, Bob Chiodini wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 19:50 -0600, akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:
> > WE are attempting to configure a SCSI machine by loading a running
> > system from a machine with only ide drives. Of course we have changed
> > the grub to access SCSI drives. Also changed the fstab. The machine is
> > a dual processor machine which is all SCSI.
> > 
> > Now the machine when booting displays the FC2 grub choice screen.
> > After the choice is made the kernel is accessed but then the machine
> > goes into what seems to be an indefinite hang. But actually, after a
> > half hour or an hour (we have not measured this accurately since it
> > took so long) the machine continues its boot. Now in looking at the
> > system files on the machine we find the strange fact that the /initrd
> > file still seems to contain the files of the ram disk. It is not
> > emptied as it should have been.
> > 
> > The system logs shows nothing that indicates delay except the system
> > keeps searching for ide drives that don't exist. 
> > We have done this process copying the system in this way several times
> > before with earlier versions of linux but not we can't make it work.
> > 
> > Can any one suggest anyplace we can look to identify the problem?
> > -- 
> > I am aware of posts by others of slow booting of FC3 but nothing seems
> > to fit this situation.
> > -------------------------------------------
> > Aaron Konstam
> 
> 
> Aaron,
> 
> Did you make a new initrd RAM disk image containing the SCSI driver?
> You'll need to tell grub the name of the new initrd image if you called
> it something different from the original.  You'll need a 
> 
>         alias scsi_hostadapter dddddddddddd
>         
>         Where dddddddddddd is the name of your scsi driver.
> 
> entry in your /etc/modprobe.conf or /etc/modules.conf whichever FC2
> uses, the latter I think, before you run mkinitrd.
> 
> Bob...
Thanks for the response but we did all these things.
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