I just upgraded one of my machines to kernel-image-2.4.18-686-smp. This box has an IDE cd burner that previously worked with 2.2.20-udma100-ext3. It also has a regular IDE cd-rom that I've been treating as a scsi device just because. All filesystems are on SCSI (Adaptec on the motherboard). For the 2.2.20 kernel, I had the following line in /etc/lilo.conf:
append="hdb=ide-scsi hdc=ide-scsi" And then installed ide-scsi from /etc/modules. When I upgraded, that stopped working because the ide-cd driver is now a module. So I added an /etc/modultils entry "cdrw" per the CD-Writing HOWTO: options ide-cd ignore="hdb hdc" alias scd1 sr_mod pre-install sg modprobe ide-scsi pre-install sr_mod modprobe ide-scsi pre-install ide-scsi modprobe ide-cd That "works" in that all the right modules get loaded, but I still can't use the cd burner. It seems that ide-cd is getting loaded earlier in the boot process and grabbing the cd-rom devices. I mounted the initr.img and looked around and it appears that for some reason ide-cd is getting loaded in the loadmodules script. So I did "mkinitrd" to update my initrd.img with the new modules.conf. That causes a spew of "can't create /var/log/ksym[date].log, read-only filesystem" right after the Adaptec driver gets loaded (before switching root filesystems). So, I put everything back to the original configuration, rebuilt initrd.img, and got it all working again. Then I wrote a script to remove the ide-cd and cdrom modules and install ide-scsi. Made that run as S99local in /etc/rc2.d. This works, but sure is ugly. So my questions is what is the proper Debian way of getting ide-scsi working with an initrd kernel? And along the same lines, what is the proper procedure when upgrading from non-initrd kernels to initrd ones when the root filesystem is scsi? What I did was to add the proper Adaptec driver to /etc/modules and then run mkinitrd. -- -| Bob Hauck -| To Whom You Are Speaking -| http://www.haucks.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
