Mark Jeffery wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've just installed a completely fresh copy of Linux with XFS 1.0 using
> the boot loader.
>
> This is going onto an old Dell machine with AIC7XXX SCSI internal system
> disk (and CDROM and CDRW), with 2 qla1280 controllers talking to arrays
> of disks (hence the XFS requirement).
>
> I can boot the system if the arrays of disks are turned off. When I turn
> the disks on, I cannot boot the system.
>
> It seems that devfs maps the arrays of disks to /dev/sda,b,c and d
> leaving the system disk /dev/sde!
This is exactly on of the problems devfs is designed to fix.
Change your fstab to reference the devfs device and not the compatibility
device
eg
/devfs/scsi/host0/bus0/target2/lun0/part1
>
>
> I have tried the scsihosts kernel parameter, setting it to
> aic7xxx:qla1280:qla1280, but that doesn't seem to help.
The issue probably the controller order although that can be a problem.
putting all your scsi controllers in initrd in the correct order will fix
this problem also.
>
>
> Any ideas?
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