New testing kernel.

Chris Ricker kaboom at gatech.edu
Mon Nov 8 03:30:21 UTC 2004


On Sat, 6 Nov 2004, Paul Iadonisi wrote:

>   Okay, I give up.  What's the new magic to use the new megaraid driver
> in this kernel?  I've put the kernel on an IBM Netfinity with a Megaraid
> controller, but the creation of the initrd failed due to the inability
> to find the 'megaraid' module.  Well, it no longer exists, as there has
> apparently been a complete rewrite of it and it is now split into two
> modules, megraid_mm and megaraid_mbox.  So, the question is, what
> changes do I make to /etc/modprobe.conf (or the new-kernel-pkg or
> mkinitrd command line) in order to include the correct modules in the
> initrd plus the correct commands in /linuxrc to insert them?
>   This box is remote, so I'd like it work on the first try ;-)
>   Googling didn't help much, by the way.  Nor did searching bugzilla
> (some megaraid bugs were found, but no info on how to do what I'm asking
> above).

I have

alias scsi_hostadapter megaraid_mbox

in /etc/modprobe.conf

mkinitrd Just Works

later,
chris




More information about the test mailing list