Hi
I got a new Adaptec 6405 card with a set of new harddrives. Problem that I assumed that the card had kernel drivers, which it has but only from 2.6.39 onwards.
I installed the kmod-aacraid drivers, they see the card and drives, fine.
However, I need to get a "linux rescue" to work, thus I need to load the drivers during the boot of the resuce disk. How do I do this?
thanks Jobst
From: Jobst Schmalenbach jobst@barrett.com.au
I got a new Adaptec 6405 card with a set of new harddrives. Problem that I assumed that the card had kernel drivers, which it has but only from 2.6.39 onwards.
I installed the kmod-aacraid drivers, they see the card and drives, fine.
However, I need to get a "linux rescue" to work, thus I need to load the drivers during the boot of the resuce disk. How do I do this?
Tried adaptec's driver disk? http://www.adaptec.com/en-us/speed/raid/aac/linux/aacraid_linux_driverdisks_...
JD
Sorry, maybe I did not give enough information. I have the drivers from adaptecs site (plus the kmod stuff).
At least once I need to boot the rescue disk to select the bootpartition and install grub on the new drives, I need to insmod the drivers, but I do not know where and how to do that during the boot process of the rescue disk (there is no menu for that).
I have never had to do this before ... in all the years of using Linux ;-)
Jobst
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 02:31:55AM -0700, John Doe (jdmls@yahoo.com) wrote:
From: Jobst Schmalenbach jobst@barrett.com.au
I got a new Adaptec 6405 card with a set of new harddrives. Problem that I assumed that the card had kernel drivers, which it has but only from 2.6.39 onwards.
I installed the kmod-aacraid drivers, they see the card and drives, fine.
However, I need to get a "linux rescue" to work, thus I need to load the drivers during the boot of the resuce disk. How do I do this?
Tried adaptec's driver disk? http://www.adaptec.com/en-us/speed/raid/aac/linux/aacraid_linux_driverdisks_...
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Hi Jobst,
I believe you'll need to build a new initrd image and include the driver modules. Try http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/CreateNewInitrd for a start. There are other guides out there too.
Good luck!
Stu
On 23 August 2012 13:08, Jobst Schmalenbach jobst@barrett.com.au wrote:
Sorry, maybe I did not give enough information. I have the drivers from adaptecs site (plus the kmod stuff).
At least once I need to boot the rescue disk to select the bootpartition and install grub on the new drives, I need to insmod the drivers, but I do not know where and how to do that during the boot process of the rescue disk (there is no menu for that).
I have never had to do this before ... in all the years of using Linux ;-)
Jobst
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 02:31:55AM -0700, John Doe (jdmls@yahoo.com) wrote:
From: Jobst Schmalenbach jobst@barrett.com.au
I got a new Adaptec 6405 card with a set of new harddrives. Problem that I assumed that the card had kernel drivers, which it has
but only
from 2.6.39 onwards.
I installed the kmod-aacraid drivers, they see the card and drives,
fine.
However, I need to get a "linux rescue" to work, thus I need to load the drivers during the boot of the resuce disk. How do I do this?
Tried adaptec's driver disk?
http://www.adaptec.com/en-us/speed/raid/aac/linux/aacraid_linux_driverdisks_...
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From: Jobst Schmalenbach jobst@barrett.com.au
At least once I need to boot the rescue disk to select the bootpartition and install grub on the new drives, I need to insmod the drivers, but I do not know where and how to do that during the boot process of the rescue disk (there is no menu for that).
Look at the dd option in the documentation: https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/ht...
JD
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