[CentOS] kernel update and RAID controller

[Akemi Yagi]

On 5/5/07, Feizhou <feizhou at graffiti.net> wrote:
> Martin Minka wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I have a problem with drivers. I believe it is a general topic for Linux
> > administrator.
> > I managed it to install Centos4 with driver disk for my RAID controller.
> > Unfortunately after "yum update" my kernel is updated and I see some
> > warnings about missing driver. After restart kernel is stopping with message
> > "kernel panic".
> >
> > The server I am installing on is Intel S5000PAL
> > http://support.intel.com/support/motherboards/server/s5000pal/ and the
> > drivers are version 07.15.0209.2007 on
> > http://downloadcenter.intel.com/scripts-df-external/filter_results.aspx?strT
> > ypes=all&ProductID=2451&OSFullName=Red+Hat*+Enterprise+Linux+4.0&lang=eng&st
> > rOSs=129&submit=Go%21
> >
> > Could somebody give me some advices how to fix this ?
> > I appreciate any hints and links.
>
> Boot up the old kernel. Copy the driver file from old kernel module
> directory to the new kernel module directory.

But the this driver may have to be compiled against the new kernel
like other kernel modules.

Akemi