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Introduction

Every so often you'll try to install EnGarde Secure Linux, the hardware auto-detection will fail, and you'll be unable to proceed with the install. When this happens you may want to override the hardware auto-detection. The purpose of this document is to tell you how to do this for SCSI/RAID adapters.

There are generally two cases where you would want to do this:

• Your hardware is very new and supported, but the drivers in EnGarde Secure Linux don't have the PCI ID's; or
• The hardware auto-detection software is either detecting the wrong module for your adapter or no module at all.

In either case you'll need the name of the module that you want to try. If you're unsure of what this module should be, ask the EnGarde Secure Linux Community Forum or Google around.

Procedure

This procedure assumes you have the following:

• An EnGarde Secure Linux 3.0 CD.
• A machine on to which you're trying to install EnGarde.
• The name of the module which you want to try.

Boot your machine up off of the EnGarde Secure Linux 3.0 CD and follow the procedure below:

• Complete the LiveCD configuration screens and select Installer at the What's Next? screen.
• Select your language, press Ok, then press Alt-F2 at the Installation Mode screen.
• Log in using the username root and the password you entered above.
• Execute the following command, replacing MODULE_NAME with the name of the module you want to use:

#  echo "2 2 MODULE_NAME FOO ##" > /tmp/pci_scsi_results

• For example, if MODULE_NAME should be megaraid_mbox, the command would be:

#  echo "2 2 megaraid_mbox FOO ##" > /tmp/pci_scsi_results

• Go back into the installer by pressing Alt-F1 and proceed with the install.

If the specified module works correctly you will be able to proceed with the installation.

Conclusion

Guardian Digital is always making improvements to the hardware auto-detection, so if you follow this procedure and it works please let us know either by posting a message on the forums or, preferably, Submitting A Bug.