[SUMMARY] RAID driver problem

[Ben Ricker <bricker@wellinx.com>]

Thanks to Chris Ricker <kaboom@gatech.edu> and Michael_Brock@dell.com
for responses.

The problem was that when I upgraded to 7.3 from 6.2, the Redhat
installer neglected to install the DAC960 module for the RAID
controller. I added an entry to modules.conf of the following:

'alias scsiadapter1 DAC960'

and ran 'mkinitrd' and it successfully loaded the DAC960 driver and
rebooted soundly.

Thanks,

Ben Ricker


On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 08:53, Ben Ricker wrote:
> I ran into an issue when upgrading a server from Redhat 6.2 to Redhat
> 7.3 where, for some unknown reason, the kernel is not loading the DAC960
> SCSI RAID driver. I think the problem lies in to the initrd image, but I
> am having trouble figuring out the best way to add the driver to the
> image.
> 
> I know I need to use 'mkinitrd' to redo the image, but I am not sure
> what will force it to load the correct driver. I added an alias to the
> modules.conf file for the driver (it is now identical to another box
> running the DAC960 driver). Will that force mkinitrd to load that driver
> in the image?
> 
> My main problem is that the kernel is panicing on the /root mount
> because it cannot read the RAID which is under control of the Mylex RAID
> controller.
> 
> Here is the error:
> root ext3 Mount root filesystem
> mount error 6 mounting ext3
> pivot_root (/sysroot, /sysroot/initrd) failed: 2
> kernel panic: No init found. ry passing init= option to kernel
> 
> I thought at first this was part of Redhat Bug 65207
> (seehttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=65207 for more
> info) but I have tried all the fixes for that bug. I am running LILO as
> the boot loader. 
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Ben Ricker
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Ben Ricker <bricker@wellinx.com>
Wellinx.com
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