On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 08:41:08PM +1100, David Booth enlightened us: > Mike Fedyk wrote: > >Matt Hyclak wrote: > >>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 > What happens with the smp verson with > insmod /media/floppy/megaraid.ko > It was already done with the UP version, same filename. > >>and putting > >>the > >>resulting .ko files in /lib/modules/xxx.ELsmp > > > >Don't you mean /lib/modules/`uname -r`/xxx.EXsmp? > > > I don't think so. > > uname -r for me is 2.6.9-42.EL > > But I have > /lib/modules/2.6.9-42.EL and /lib/modules2.6.9-42.ELsmp > > From the help so far I am proposing to: > # Insert floppy with 686 version of megaraid.ko > mount /media/floppy > # Copy the 686 megaraid.ko module > cp /media/floppy/megaraid.ko > /mnt/sysimage/lib/modules/2.6.9-42.EL/kernel/drivers/scsi > umount /media/floppy > # Insert floppy with 686-smp version of megaraid.ko > mount /media/floppy > # Copy the smp686 megaraid.ko module > cp /media/floppy/megaraid.ko > /mnt/sysimage/lib/modules/2.6.9-42.ELsmp/kernel/drivers/scsi > > and then > > # set root to your newly installed system image > chroot /mnt/sysimage > vi /etc/modprobe.conf > # make the line with 'alias scsi_hostadapter' say > alias scsi_hostadapter megaraid > # Save the file. > :wq > #Switch to the /boot directory > cd /boot > #Create new initrd files > mkinitrd initrd-2.6.9-42.EL.img.megaraid 2.6.9-42.EL > mkinitrd initrd-2.6.9-42.ELsmp.img.megaraid 2.6.9-42.ELsmp > # > #Copy the new initrd over old initrd > cp initrd-2.6.9-42.EL.img.megaraid initrd-2.6.42-EL.img > cp initrd-2.6.9-42.EL.img.megaraid initrd-2.6.42-ELsmp.img > # Exit chroot environment > exit > # Switch back to the GUI installer > Alt-F1 > press Finish That sounds right to me. Matt -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263