Grub and ide-scsi

[onlythetony]

Hi guys,

I have a seagate STT80000 TR4 tape drive (hde) and an ATAPI Iomega Zip 100 (hdf) drive mounted in my SuSE 8.1 box.
A the grub bootloader I hit CTRL then enter "hde=ide-scsi hdf=ide-scsi" into the console.

Once the system boots I pull up a root console then use "insmod ide-scsi" - everything works fine. I can use TAPER to back up with no problems and I can use my zip disk normally...

HOWEVER..

When I add the "hdx=ide-scsi" lines to grub.lst it completely ignores the lines and doesn't bother to register either drive as SCSI.
Also, I added the "insmod" command to boot.local (SuSE equivalent of rc.local) and it decided to register the CD Rom as a SCSI device!

Whilst I've solved the latter by creating a shell script and calling it from rc5 AFTER the drives are mounted, I still cannot get the ide-scsi call to function within grub. I still have to key it manually.

*********grub.lst******

# Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Wed Oct 15 20:33:43 2003


gfxmenu (hd0,1)/boot/message
color white/blue black/light-gray
default 0
timeout 8

title linux
kernel (hd0,1)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda2 vga=791 hde=ide-scsi hdf=ide-scsi ide0=0x1f0,0x3f6,14 ide1=0x170,0x376,15 ide2=0 ide3=0 ide4=0 ide5=0 ide6=0 ide7=0 ide8=0 ide9=0

title floppy
root (fd0)
chainloader +1

title failsafe
kernel (hd0,1)/boot/vmlinuz.shipped root=/dev/hda2 ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off vga=normal nosmp disableapic maxcpus=0 3 ide0=0x1f0,0x3f6,14 ide1=0x170,0x376,15 ide2=0 ide3=0 ide4=0 ide5=0 ide6=0 ide7=0 ide8=0 ide9=0

**********end***********


Any ideas?

Tee

[kevinalm]

You don't have an initrd line in grub. Without this, grub can't find the ide-scsi module when you are trying to load it as a kernel line argument. At that point in time, grub can't retrieve it from the kernel module directory, it can only read kernel modules from the initrd.img.