How to Force Add/Remove hardware in Linux?

[cgchris99]

I want to boot up a linux system and force it to go into the add remove hardware program.

This is RedHat 7.

Please help if you can. I'm in a bind and need this info ASAP.

Thanks

[Unruly]

um, you might have missed the installation phase of detect hardware... if you give us a more specific details pertaining to the problem, we might be able to help out with solving it without the add/remove hardware installation wizard.

[pbharris]

hello,
i think the service kudzo takes care of this - try /etc/rc.d/init.d/kudzo path may be incorrect, but close.

of course you don't need kudzo - you can edit a couple of files and be up and running.

[ 25 May 2001: Message edited by: pbharris ]

[cgchris99]

What are the couple of lines you are referring to fix?

What I have done is cloned a SCSI hd system to and IDE. It will not boot up.

It starts to then dies. And it tries to load the scsi drivers. I managed to get it booted using linux rescue and then edited the modules.conf and removed the scsi lines.

But during actual bootup they are still referenced. So I missed something.

I was hoping the autosearch would cause it to remove missing hardware and install the new stuff.

I will try this under rescue. If you have any other ideas, please let me know

[pbharris]

hello,
the lines to modify will typically be in /etc/modules.conf, although there are others. for the harddrive issue pretty much just /etc/lilo.conf and /etc/fstab. i am guessing that /etc/fstab says something like

/dev/sda1 /etc ext2 defaults # #
/dev/sda2 /usr ext2 defaults # #