problem changing SCSI cards on RedHat 6.2

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Author: Datawolfdatawolf@ibm.net
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Subject: problem changing SCSI cards on RedHat 6.2
Found it. It's in my /boot/initrd.img file.

For those who don't know, you can set Linux up to mount a temporary file
system from initrd, which sets some things up before mounting the real
filesystem.  You can tell if you're using it by looking for an "initrd"
line in your /etc/lilo.conf.  It's just a compressed disk image, so to
crack it open, just do:
   (Probably on a copy, not the original)
   # mv initrd.img initrd.img.gz
   # mount -t ext2 -o loop initrd.img SOME_DIRECTORY      (It might be
fat instead of ext2, but usually not.)
Then you just go into the mounted filesystem, change what you want,
unmount it, copy it back to /etc/boot (making sure that if you changed
the name, you edit your lilo.conf to reflect it), and run /sbin/lilo
(regardless of whether you renamed it.


-BVG

James Lee Bell wrote:
>
> Mayhaps you're calling it from LILO as an option, i.e. check
> /etc/lilo.conf?
>
> Otherwise, I don't know enough about Linux yet to tell you what rc.* or
> *.conf (isapnp?) files to go looking through.
>
> Datawolf wrote:
> > So where is it still getting the ncr53c8xx driver from? Is there a new
> > secret kudzu-rc file that I have to modify? The conf.modules should be
> > sufficient, I thought...