Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 87751
Rearrange /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit to enable firewire hard disks
Last modified: 2014-03-16 22:35:24 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 Description of problem: Just set up a new RedHat 9 box with an attached 200 Gbyte Maxtor Firewire hard drive which I installed an ext3 filesystem to. To get the filesystem to mount at boot time, I had to have the kernel load the firewire drivers before any of the S* scripts started. I found that I could get the firewire/SCSI modules loaded by adding insmod ieee1394 insmod ohci1394 insmod sbp2 before the mounting and fsck portion /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit. However, moving up the firewire portion of /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit also worked. Patch coming up in a second. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): initscripts-7.14-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Attach a Firewire drive to a RedHat 9 box. 2. Run insmod ieee1394; insmod ohci1394; insmod sbp2 3. Run fdisk and put ext3 on it. 4. Add an /etc/fstab entry for the device. 5. Reboot. The system won't boot. Actual Results: System won't boot with a Firewire filesystem. Expected Results: Boot just fine. Additional info:
Created attachment 90825 [details] Move firewire initialization sooner in the script
Closing bugs on older, no longer supported, releases. Apologies for any lack of response. This should be fixed on current releases that load hardware modules at startup.