Jeff wrote: > On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 11:58 AM, Ruslan Sivak <russ at vshift.com> wrote: > >> Tim Verhoeven wrote: >> >>> On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 6:51 PM, Ruslan Sivak <russ at vshift.com> wrote: >>> >>> >>>> I successfully installed CentOS on 3ware 9650SE controller. Due to some >>>> issues with compatibility with my motherboard, I replaced it with a >>>> 9690SA. >>>> Now the system won't boot (although interestingly enough, it find the >>>> boot >>>> menu fine, just won't boot past a certain point in the bootup phase. >>>> >>>> I thought I would reinstall, but anaconda doesn't find the raid array. >>>> 3ware does have drivers on their site, but I'm not too sure how to get >>>> them >>>> on my system? >>>> >>>> >>> That controller requires a newer version of the 3ware driver. I'm >>> pretty sure the 5.2 will have that driver. So if you can wait a bit >>> longer... >>> >>> Regards, >>> Tim >>> >>> >>> >> For production use, I can, but currently we are testing these servers, and I >> would like to get them up and running. Is there a way to load a driver on >> an already running system, or load it for anaconda? Something similar to F6 >> in windows? >> > > Yes, anaconda supports the concept of a driver disk. > > http://www.centos.org/docs/2/rhl-ig-as-x86-en-2.1/ch-driverdisk.html > > And 3ware offers a disk image download for 9690SA/RHEL5. > > Thank you. I noticed that they said in the docs to install by using linux dd. 3ware provides a zip file with the drivers, not a disk image, AFAIK. I burned the contents of the zip to a cd, but anaconda fails to recognize it. It keeps complaining about not being able to find a fat or a ext3 filesystem on the driver disk. I don't have a floppy drive, only a cdrom and a flash drive. Do I need to get a floppy drive in order for this to work? Russ