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Re: Question about RH 7.0 install
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Tibbetts)
Sun Dec 31 11:46:00 2000
Message-Id: <200012311645.LAA12429@hikari-no-ken.mit.edu>
To: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU, tibbetts@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 31 Dec 2000 16:19:25 GMT."
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Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 11:45:55 -0500
From: Richard Tibbetts <tibbetts@MIT.EDU>
This message might be more appropriate for the linux-help mailing list
rather than linux-dev, since it is asking for help and has little or
nothing to do with projects that linux-dev as a group is working on.
And you are more likely to find people running bleeding edge
distributions on linux-help.
As for particularly linux-dev insite, the people who write the redhat
installer suck in many ways. They like to "completely rewrite" the
installer for each new version. What they actually do is to reuse
large chunks of code in a new design, leading to much breakage and
kludginess.
tibbetts
On 12/31 you wrote:
> At home, I just did a from-scratch install of RedHat 7.0.
>
> Unlike RH 6.x, it did not ask me if I had any SCSI cards or Network
> cards, it just failed to detect them and left them un-configured.
>
> I managed to modify modules.conf to account for my Network card and it
> now does the right thing at boot time. (I preserved an old conf.modules
> file.)
>
> If I type:
> modprobe aha1542
> mount /dev/sda1 /u2
> the SCSI disk is discovered and brought on line just fine.
>
> But adding the line from the old conf.modules to modules.conf:
> alias scsi_hostadapter aha1542
> does NOT result in auto-detection.
>
> Does anyone have any guess if this is because:
> more configuration, done automagically in 6.x remans for me?
> there is a bug in the modules initialization?
> something changed in 7.0 to require further modules.conf hax.
>
> Other info:
>
> Neither 6.x installation with this adapter nor other systems I have are
> utilizing an rc.local.
>
> For whatever reason, all my other systems have an initrd.img file, but
> this 7.0 system decided not to use one.
>
> -wdc
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