| (1) | Power on system and boot from RH 7.1 installation disk. At the boot prompt, type "expert noprobe". |
| (2) | Select the appropriate the language, country, etc. Choose "add device" to list device drivers. Select "new experimental...aic7xxx_mod". Then aic7xxx_mod will be loaded, instead of the regular aic7xxx. Complete the installation. However the system may crash upon reboot because it will attempt to load the old driver. Below is the instruction to delete the command: |
| (3) | After completing the installation, reboot with the installation CD in the CD ROM. |
| (4) | At the boot prompt, type "linux rescue noprobe". |
| (5) | Choose "add device" to list device drivers. Select "new experimental.... aic7xxx_mod" and it will load the driver. |
| (6) | Choose "done" and choose "US" and "English". Then anaconda will start to load. |
| (7) | Answer "ok" and it will bring up the shell |
| (8) | Type the following command and press enter at the end of the line
chroot /mnt/sysimage
cd/etc
vi modules.conf |
| (9) | Now you should see the content of the file "modules.conf" and the cursor should be at the beginning of the file. Move the cursor to the beginning of the 3rd（or 4th）line:
alias ...1
and press dd to delete this line
Move the cursor to the beginning of the 4th（or 5th）line:
alias ...2
and press dd to delete this line
press :wq
Note: If your are installing the Red Hat 7.2 version, please take the step 1 to step 9 only. Do not take the step 10. Restart your system after installing. |
| (10) | cd /boot
/sbin /mkinitrd -f initrd-2.4.2-2.img 2.4.2-2
If using Dual CPUs, add smp as shown:
/sbin /mkinitrd -f initrd-2.4.2-2smp.img 2.4.2-2smp |
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