Booting hangs at Initializing Hardware...

[makando]

After connecting a new SCSI external storage(DAS-315SA from Fastora), my FC4 boot sequence will hang at Initializing Hardware...

I reckon it is having difficulty hooking up my DAS. Anyone have a clue on how to overcome this?

I have a 3Ware Escalade ATA RAID card where my OS is housed in LVM volumes.
Newly added is an AEC SCSI adapter connecting the DAS.

[makando]

Just got it fixed. I had to change the SCSI id on my DAS to be equal or larger than the onboard RAID array.

This is what I deduced, the LVMs are built from /dev/sda so the introduction of my DAS actually forced the onboard array to become sdb. But this is odd. Since my onboard RAID card is recognized as scsi0 while my AEC scsi card is recognized as scsi1. So any devices connected to scsi1 should be linked after devices on scsi0 right?