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[sworley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (scott worley)]

On December 20, 1999 Paul wrote
>My first posting to this group.
>I done a fresh install of 6.3 and recomplied the kernel with scsi
>support using the advansys scsi card. After recompiling the kernel and
>doing a bzlilo, a reboot does not show the scsi devices as being found.
>scsi devices=0. I have recompilied the kernel 3 times and have gotten
>the same results each time.  I followed the 6.3 manual in doing this.
>Any ideas out there what is wrong. Is this a bug in the 6.3 distro.
>
>Paul (nevada)
>
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Paul,

Did you choose to compile the Advansys driver as a module?  The default 
installation of SuSE 6.3 for SCSI uses the initrd(ramdisk) method.  The 
specific SCSI card driver is stored in /boot/initrd.  If you compiled the 
driver as a module you must regenerate /boot/initrd.  I use the aic7xxx 
driver as a module and did the following:
1. cp /boot/initrd /boot/initrd.old  save the original
2. make menuconfig choose SCSI support as non-module, specific driver as 
module(advansys, adaptec, etc). Also, SuSE has a global variable at the 
beginning of /etc/rc.config which contains the list of modules which should 
be in /boot/initrd. This gets filled in during install when you choose the 
SCSI module to load.
3. make dep clean bzImage
4. make modules
5. make modules_install
6. edit /etc/lilo.conf like this:
    A. add entry for old kernel, vmlinuz.old
    B. comment out global entry initrd=/boot/initrd
    C. add entry initrd=/boot/initrd under new kernel image statement
    D. add entry initrd=/boot/initrd.old under old kernel image statement
7. make bzlilo
8. cp /boot/vmlinuz /boot/vmlinuz.suse this step keeps the mk_initrd script 
from complaining and allows it to finish properly. It wouldn't work otherwise
9. mk_initrd  this will generate the new initrd for the new kernel
10. /sbin/lilo MUST do this again

Of course this wont apply if you compiled the driver directly into the kernel 
instead of as a module.

Hope this helps
scott
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