Wow, I totally forgot to look in modules.conf. Thanks for the great answer!
That's why I love this list :)
Matt
On Wednesday 14 March 2001 10:54am, you wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Matt Stevenson wrote:
> > 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
>
> Matt,
> There are a couple of ways to do this. The quickest is to edit
> /etc/modules.conf or /etc/conf.modules and set up two aliases like this:
>
> alias scsi_hostadapter ips
> alias scsi_hostadapter1 aic7xxx
>
> then run mkintrd and create a new RAMdisk. Don't forget to run lilo.
>
> Another way is to compile IBM ServeRAID III support into the kernel, and
> have the Adaptec card sopport as a module. Then you only need the
> "alias scsi_hostadapter1 aic7xxx" in modules.conf. You do not need to
> pre-load the aic7xxx adapter in mkinitrd - you don't need it loaded to
> boot the system.
>
> I have not tried it, but with both compiled into the kernel, you can
> probably make it work by using scsi_hostadapter=ips.
>
> Mikkel
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