[CentOS] xfs module not loading

Fong Vang sudoyang at gmail.com
Fri Aug 19 15:20:43 UTC 2005


On 8/19/05, James Pearson <james-p at moving-picture.com> wrote:
> Fong Vang wrote:
> >>My guess is that these modules don't match the running installer kernel.
> >>
> >>I think you should really start from scratch - get hold of the
> >>CentOSPlus kernel RPMS and xfsprogs RPM and rebuild the installer -
> >>hacking modules into the various installer images is very unlikely to
> >>work and difficult to maintain - I've tried it before, but it is so much
> >>simpler to rebuild the installer (once you've worked out what to do) ...
> >
> >
> > What do you mean by rebuild the installer?  I wonder what could be
> > different since I am using rpmbuild to build the i586 kernel then
> > copying just the new modules I'm interested in.
> 
> That's likely to be you're problem - the kernel modules from a rebuilt
> kernel RPM probably won't match the kernel in the installer.
> 
> Rebuilding the installer with and an XFS enabled kernel will result in a
> working installer ... as you've seen, hacking the installer by adding
> modules, doesn't work - that is the main difference ...

Makes sense. Thank you for the insight.  Could you point to some
document detailing the steps to rebuild the installer (not really sure
what that means).

thanks
 
> James Pearson
> 
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