https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/replace-old-smart-array-with-sa5300/m-p/2791259#M78953 Can one do an in-place upgrade of Linux running one of the old generation Smart Array controllers (using cpqarray) with the newer Smart Array 5300 Controller (using cciss)? If so, how? <BR /> <BR />I tried to do this on Red Hat 7.3 (2.4.18-3), but the boot would hang with the following error message (just the last few lines reproduced here): <BR /> <BR />failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k block-majort-104 errno =2 <BR />mont: error 6 mounting ext3 <BR />pivotroot: pivot_root (/sysroot,/sysroot/initrd) failed: 2 <BR />kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel <BR /> <BR />(this type of error message has happened to me a couple of times under different circumstances when I did somethin kernel-related, but I have never been able to fix it and had to reinstall) <BR /> <BR />I also tried the following without any luck: <BR />1 modifying /boot/grub/grub.conf entries from ../ida/.. to ../cciss/.. <BR />2 grub-install /dev/cciss/c0d0p1 (which recreates /boot/grub/device.map to reflect the new device name) <BR />(fd0) /dev/fd0 <BR />(hd0) /dev/cciss/c0d0 <BR />3 change entries in /etc/fstab from ../ida/.. to ../cciss/.. (unnecessary for RH, which uses ext2 labels, not device names to refer to these devices <BR /> <BR />TIA <BR />Riaan Wed, 21 Aug 2002 23:00:00 GMT Ayman Altounji 2002-08-21T23:00:00Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/replace-old-smart-array-with-sa5300/m-p/2791259#M78953 Can one do an in-place upgrade of Linux running one of the old generation Smart Array controllers (using cpqarray) with the newer Smart Array 5300 Controller (using cciss)? If so, how? <BR /> <BR />I tried to do this on Red Hat 7.3 (2.4.18-3), but the boot would hang with the following error message (just the last few lines reproduced here): <BR /> <BR />failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k block-majort-104 errno =2 <BR />mont: error 6 mounting ext3 <BR />pivotroot: pivot_root (/sysroot,/sysroot/initrd) failed: 2 <BR />kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel <BR /> <BR />(this type of error message has happened to me a couple of times under different circumstances when I did somethin kernel-related, but I have never been able to fix it and had to reinstall) <BR /> <BR />I also tried the following without any luck: <BR />1 modifying /boot/grub/grub.conf entries from ../ida/.. to ../cciss/.. <BR />2 grub-install /dev/cciss/c0d0p1 (which recreates /boot/grub/device.map to reflect the new device name) <BR />(fd0) /dev/fd0 <BR />(hd0) /dev/cciss/c0d0 <BR />3 change entries in /etc/fstab from ../ida/.. to ../cciss/.. (unnecessary for RH, which uses ext2 labels, not device names to refer to these devices <BR /> <BR />TIA <BR />Riaan Wed, 21 Aug 2002 23:00:00 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/replace-old-smart-array-with-sa5300/m-p/2791259#M78953 Ayman Altounji 2002-08-21T23:00:00Z