[CentOS] CentOS4 and older megaraid - SOLVED

[Matt Hyclak]

On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 02:15:59PM +1100, David Booth enlightened us:
> Matt Hyclak wrote:
> >On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 04:03:41PM -0600, Johnny Hughes enlightened us:
> >>>Craig White had also written
> >>>
> >>>"You could probably repeat for smp kernel if you have multiple 
> >>>processors"
> >>>
> >>>I will need to do that but I don't know what you mean - do I need driver 
> >>>disks for that too?
> >>>
> >>You should not need driver disks for install for an smp kernel.
> >>
> >>The installer uses the regular kernel and not an smp kernel.
> >
> >Well, you need them at install time in the sense that if you want the 
> >system
> >to boot to the SMP kernel when your done installing, it has to be there.
> >
> >Matt
> >
> Thanks, but this doesn't help.
> I'm installing on an HP with dual processors.
> (And a dual processor Acer after that.)
> 
> Craig mentions "repeat for smp kernel" in the context of compiling the 
> megaraid driver first with kernel-devel-xx.i586 and then again with 
> kernel-devel-xx.686 and loading them at install time in a special sequence.
> 
> Is there something similar that needs to be done with 
> kernel-smp-devel-xx.i586/686? Compile what? Load when?
>
> Suppose I can get the megaraid scsi driver working and Centos4.4 
> installed and running: can I ignore the smp stuff and sort it out later?

Yes, you'll just have to boot the UP kernel until you do. It should just be
a matter of repeating the same steps with kernel-smp-devel and putting the
resulting .ko files in /lib/modules/xxx.ELsmp

And actually, I don't think the 586 stuff is needed anymore since as of
CentOS 4.4, the installer uses the i686 kernel unless you specifically
request i586 on the boot line.

Matt

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Matt Hyclak
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