Looks like driverload may go away at some point. In the meantime I'll give it a try. Thanks for the reply Matt, Greg On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 19:27 -0500, Matt Wilson wrote: > On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 03:01:15PM -0500, Greg Dickie wrote: > > > > I notice that the loader creates a /tmp/scsidisks file which > > obviously does not get changed when I play with the modules but it > > seems like that file is only consulted to figure out whether a drive > > is removeable. > > The only thing that /tmp/scsidisks is used for is to determine if a > scsi disk is a removable device (read: usb-storage). > > > My question is does anyone know how I can achieve what I'm trying to > > do and or can anyone explain where anaconda proper gets its SCSI > > drive list from? > > It gets the all of the drives in the drive list from kudzu last I > checked (it's been a while since I've been in that code). > > You can force the drivers to be loaded in an order you desire by using > the "driverload=" kernel command line argument. Give it a : delimited > set of modules to load: > > linux driverload=sd_mod:mptbase:mptscsih > > or whatever. > > HTH. > > Matt