on 6-6-2008 3:32 PM Vidar Normann spake the following: > > > On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 12:16 AM, Ruslan Sivak > <russ at vshift.com > <mailto:russ at vshift.com>> wrote: > > Scott Silva wrote: > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > The ones on their standard download page are not compatible > with Xen kernels according to the release notes. The ones > to be used for Xen kernels on x64 is this one: > http://www.3ware.com/KB/article.aspx?id=15257 > > That only has a zip file, not an image file. > > Russ > > http://www.3ware.com/KB/article.aspx?id=15257 is the files that > go on a driver disk. I just dl'd it and opened it. > I know there is a way to use a driver disk from other media, but > I can't find it, and I'm sure someone on list will remember how. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > > Yes these are the files I was using. It wouldn't let me install > with these files on a usb drive or a cdrom, but it worked fine when > I put them on a floppy. I then did an upgrade install of CentOS, > and was able to boot into the system. > The only issue now seems to be that I still can't boot the xen > kernel with it. I tried manually copying the 3w-9xxx.ko from > /lib/modules/2.6.18-53.el5/updates to > /lib/modules/2.6.18-53.1.21.el5xen/updates, but that didn't seem to > help. > > Do I need to mkinitrd or something? > > > Maybe not 100% useful, but I had trouble installing CentOS on a machine > with a 9690SA as recently as tonight - who has floppy > drives anymore? (Well, I did, but all my floppies were unusable, big > shock..) > > The trick was to use the method explained on this site to turn the files > in the driver download from 3ware into an image: > http://www.openfusion.net/linux/network-driver-images > > Upload it to somewhere accessible via the Internet or your local > network. Then all I had to do was boot with the parameter: > linux dd=http://somewhere.com/filename > > Good to know that dd supports http and ftp out of the box and not just > local media. > I knew someone would remember how to use a driverdisk image over a network! -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 258 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080606/3f67f438/attachment-0004.sig>