[CentOS] Re: 3Ware 9690SA
Scott Silva
ssilva at sgvwater.com
Fri Jun 6 23:27:25 UTC 2008
on 6-6-2008 3:32 PM Vidar Normann spake the following:
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> On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 12:16 AM, Ruslan Sivak
> <russ at vshift.com
> <mailto:russ at vshift.com>> wrote:
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> Scott Silva wrote:
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> The ones on their standard download page are not compatible
> with Xen kernels according to the release notes. The ones
> to be used for Xen kernels on x64 is this one:
> http://www.3ware.com/KB/article.aspx?id=15257
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> That only has a zip file, not an image file.
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> Russ
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> http://www.3ware.com/KB/article.aspx?id=15257 is the files that
> go on a driver disk. I just dl'd it and opened it.
> I know there is a way to use a driver disk from other media, but
> I can't find it, and I'm sure someone on list will remember how.
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> Yes these are the files I was using. It wouldn't let me install
> with these files on a usb drive or a cdrom, but it worked fine when
> I put them on a floppy. I then did an upgrade install of CentOS,
> and was able to boot into the system.
> The only issue now seems to be that I still can't boot the xen
> kernel with it. I tried manually copying the 3w-9xxx.ko from
> /lib/modules/2.6.18-53.el5/updates to
> /lib/modules/2.6.18-53.1.21.el5xen/updates, but that didn't seem to
> help.
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> Do I need to mkinitrd or something?
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> Maybe not 100% useful, but I had trouble installing CentOS on a machine
> with a 9690SA as recently as tonight - who has floppy
> drives anymore? (Well, I did, but all my floppies were unusable, big
> shock..)
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> The trick was to use the method explained on this site to turn the files
> in the driver download from 3ware into an image:
> http://www.openfusion.net/linux/network-driver-images
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> Upload it to somewhere accessible via the Internet or your local
> network. Then all I had to do was boot with the parameter:
> linux dd=http://somewhere.com/filename
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> Good to know that dd supports http and ftp out of the box and not just
> local media.
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I knew someone would remember how to use a driverdisk image over a network!
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