From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Moroder Subject: Re: persistent scsi with udev Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2007 16:47:10 +0100 Message-ID: References: <45CB3141.2030707@emulex.com> <45CB3CDA.9040704@sgi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:37359 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161523AbXBHPrG (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Feb 2007 10:47:06 -0500 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1HFBTz-0007H1-Vi for linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org; Thu, 08 Feb 2007 16:46:48 +0100 Received: from merlin2.provinz.bz.it ([62.101.0.30]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 08 Feb 2007 16:46:47 +0100 Received: from andreas.moroder by merlin2.provinz.bz.it with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 08 Feb 2007 16:46:47 +0100 In-Reply-To: <45CB3CDA.9040704@sgi.com> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Michael Reed schrieb: > While you didn't explicitly mention which distro you're using, some already > have udev in their initrd. If this applies in your case, you should be able > to change the root= parameter passed to the kernel to specify your root device > via a persistent name. For example: > > root=/dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:01:03.0-scsi-0:0:1:0p1 > > You can do the same in your /etc/fstab for the root device. > > You can ALSO change the order in which modules are loaded via /etc/modprobe.conf, > or /etc/sysconfig/kernel, or something similar for your distro, so that the driver > for your root device is always loaded first. > > I hope this helps. > > Mike > hello Mike, we use SLES 10. The direct path is THE solution. Thanks Andreas