How to boot from LSI SCSI or ADAPTEC SCSI

[Rick Stevens]

Paul Howarth wrote:
> Longming Lee wrote:
> 
>> I have a external SCSI DISK ARRAY, and I have installed RH9 at the PC 
>> with
>> LSI SCSI now.
> 
> 
> You do realise that this is a Fedora list, not a Red Hat Linux list?
> 
>  I want to install Adaptec SCSI(ASC-29160) driver more.
> 
>> And then this SCSI DISK ARRAY can boot from PC with ASC-29160 at once,
>> if the LSI SCSI is broken down.
>>
>> The /etc/modules.conf now is:
>> alias eth0 e1000
>> alias eth1 e1000
>> alias scsi_hostadapter mptbase
>> alias scsi_hostadapter1 mptscsih
>> alias usb-controller usb-ohci
>>
>> How should I do and then the SCSI DISK ARRAY can boot from LSI SCSI
>> or ASC-29160?
> 
> 
> Try adding:
> alias scsi_hostadapter2 aic7xxx
> to /etc/modules.conf
> 
> You'll then need to re-run mkinitrd to build a new initrd for your 
> kernel. The exact command line for running this will depend on what 
> kernel you're running, but it'll be something like:
> 
> # mkinitrd -v /boot/initrd-2.4.20-42.9.legacy 2.4.20-42.9.legacy

Actually, that should be:

# mkinitrd -fv /boot/initrd-2.4.20-42.9.legacy.img 2.4.20-42.9.legacy

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