On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 20:00 +0100, dan1 wrote:
Hello everyone.
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Does anyone know how I could upgrade easily this initrd file to contain the proper driver, and even from another partition? Would it be possible to keep an old config-xx file and do an rpm upgrade which would automatically recompile a proper initrd-xx file for that new system?
You can at least try to prepare a new initrd (name it differently and create a different entry in grub.conf) with mkinitrd. mkinitrd has a nice feature called --with=module so you can try to mkinitrd --with=sata_via to include this module even if not 'already' specified in /etc/modprobe.conf (don't forget also to change this after the machine has correctly booted : 'alias scsi_hostadapter=') I've never tested such hdd migration but it should work ...