This may be a simple question but I've not come across an answer in my
web/deja searches.
I've got a large linux with two SCSI controller cards, the first card is an
IBM ServeRAID III RAID card which holds the raid mirror for my Linux core
OS/boot partitions.
The second is an Adaptec 2944UW card connected to an IBM Enterprise Storage
server for about 800gig worth of storage. (The Enterprise Storage Server
carves the 800gig into virtual LUNS of around 100gig each, so the SCSI card
sees 8 "drives" on it)
My problem is, Linux always wants to boot the Adaptec card first, so it
assignes /dev/sda to the Adaptec card and tries booting off that. Of course
my /boot and / partition is on the internal ServeRAID III card, which it
loads in second.
My question is, is there a kernel/boot parameter I can pass to tell it to
load the IBM ServeRAID III module (ips) first, and the Adaptect module
(aic7xxx) second? I've tried playing with the order in initrd, but it
doesn't seem to help.
"mkinitrd --preload ips --preload aic7xxx /boot/initrd-whatever.img 2.2.17"
or whatever kernel I use.
Compiling both modules into the kernel always leads to the aic7xxx adapter
loading first.
Help!!:)
Thanks,
Matt
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