Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 2 Feb 2001 13:46:42 +0000 | From | Michael Pacey <> | Subject | Re: 2 SCSI controllers causing boot problems... |
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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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