-----Original Message----- From: Joe Morris (NTM) [mailto:Joe_Morris@ntm.org] Sent: Friday, February 23, 2007 4:54 PM To: john Subject: Re: [opensuse] Loading modlues on Boot john wrote:

-----Original Message----- From: Joe Morris (NTM) [mailto:Joe_Morris@ntm.org] Sent: Friday, February 23, 2007 3:41 PM To: john Subject: Re: [opensuse] Loading modlues on Boot

john wrote:

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Well, I Did that but the scsi partition wasn't recongised at the beginning

My module is qla2xx

In the future, please delete the previous signature, it made it hard to find your answer. In your case, you need your module to see your boot drive, meaning you need it BEFORE you boot. You need to add it to the initrd modules in the same file. Then, as root you will need to run mkinitrd, which will rebuild your initrd file with that module included. HTH

Well, could I put some type of code in my bootloader (GRUB) in order to load the module?

No, the bootloader does not load modules.

I have already put in the /etc/sysconfig/kernel

INITRD_MODULES="piix megaraid_mbox qla6312 qla2xxx siimage reiserfs"

With no success

Meaning grub cannot find your disk, or booting cannot find your disk? Does your BIOS see your disks?

I am not sure about the mkinitrd could you tell me how to run the excact command.

That is the exact command. Without any options, it will rebuild the default initrd using the modules of the default kernel. Just su to root, then mkinitrd. You will see the progress of the command.

Should I reboot my machine afterwards?

How can you troubleshoot a boot problem without rebooting? I am getting confused as to your exact problem (obviously some kind of boot problem). Do you get a grub menu? That means your Bios has found your disk, loaded the Grub stage 1, which loads stage 1.5 to be able to read the files on the filesystem in the boot directory, and loads stage 2 and you see a menu. You enter or it times out to an entry and loads the initrd and kernel and you boot. Where in that process is it failing? -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.2 x86_64 Well, I run mkinitrd as root and a boot iso image created I rebooted my machine and all the required modules loaded before mounting Then my scsi device was found by the system. Thanks for your help. What if I would like to remove that boot image? Or alter it? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org