[CentOS] xfs module not loading

Fri Aug 19 14:43:06 UTC 2005
Fong Vang <sudoyang at gmail.com>

On 8/19/05, James Pearson <james-p at moving-picture.com> wrote:
> Fong Vang wrote:
> >
> > Maybe I need to move this discussion to the anaconda mailing list.
> >
> > Anyway, I've been unable to get the xfs kernel module to load.
> > Comparing the setup in Fedora Core 4, I noticed that xfs.ko is
> > dependent on exportfs.ko (in modules.dep).  I've added the modules to
> > netstg2.img and stage2.img.  Anaconda (loader) is unable to load the
> > modules (although both are copied to /tmp).  There's nothing in the
> > log to pinpoint what the problem is.  Anyone knows what I'm missing?
> > Why is anaconda/loader unable to load these modules?
> 
> 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.
 
> James Pearson
> 
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