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SubjectRe: 2 SCSI controllers causing boot problems...

On Fri, 02 Feb 2001 10:09:21 Drew Bertola wrote:
>
> I know I've seen this in the past, but the answer slips my mind and I
> can't find anything in the archives.
>
> I've just set up a box w/ an aic7xxx card. The boot drive hangs off
> that card. During installation, the boot drive is sda. Lilo contains
> "root=/dev/sda8".
>
> I compiled a new kernel with the 3ware raid driver. When I rebooted,
> the 3ware card driver must have been loaded first; /dev/sda8 was no
> longer the root device.
>
> How do I control the device designations during boot?
>

Drew,

If you check the archive's I've had a similar problem.

Possible answers:

Compile the to-be-loaded-2nd driver as a module and keep the first builtin
Use devfs (it lets you pass a 'scsi=driver1:driver2:...' to the kernel,
controlling load order)

There are devfs 2.2 patches and 2.4.1 includes devfs natively; I chose
2.4.1 and it worked.

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