[Thincrust-devel] generating scsi disks

[Mike Schmidt]

Note that only vmware workstation and vmware player/server support ide 
disks.  Any real production appliances will be in esx/esxi, and there 
you really need mptspi   (for the lsi drivers).
What about the scsi_wait_scan module; despite the fixes noted in the bug 
report, it still didn't work for me. I suppose with the command line 
option we could add it there is necessary.
This is great. Thanks a lot.

Mike

Joey Boggs wrote:
> 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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