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 > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >