The OS's being used are CentOS and/or RHEL40.

I have a storage array with a number of volumes on it. When I install an OS, the installer cannot see the volumes. AFTER I install an OS, I need to do the following;

in /etc/modprobe.conf

options scsi_mod max_luns=256 dev_flags="INLINE:TF200 5_23078:0x200"

mkinitrd -f /boot/initrd-`uname -r`.img `uname -r`

Then the OS can see the volumes. Problem is, I need to see these volumes WHILE I'm installing so that I can install on one of the volumes.

The question;

I cannot seem to find a way of passing this information to the installer and so wonder if there is some way of rebuilding disk1 to include this information at install time?

If your installer provides a console, you could just do: You might need to rmmod it first and re-modprobe it, if it is autoloaded during the boot.

If this does not work, you can try adding the following to the kernel boot parameters (presented by the bootloader on the CD):
and boot with that.

Thanks very much for the help.

I've been messing with networking for some time but never needed to get into specialty installations so am unfortunately at a loss .

>If your installer provides a console, you could just do:
>
>modprobe scsi_mod max_luns=256 dev_flags="INLINE:TF200 >5_23078:0x200"[/code]

I'm using the standard GUI install with RHEL4 and other packages. This didn't work, only LUNS 0/1 show up still.

>You might need to rmmod it first and re-modprobe it, if it is >autoloaded during the boot.

Can you explain this a little more? I'm not sure what this means at the installer level?

>If this does not work, you can try adding the following to >the kernel boot parameters (presented by the bootloader on >the CD):

>scsi_mod.max_luns=256 scsi_mod.dev_flags="INLINE:TF200 >5_23078:0x200" and boot with that.[/QUOTE]

So, I add this on the install disk itself. So, need to modify it, then cut it back to CD, then try to install?

Mike