On Sat, Jun 07, 2008 at 12:32:47AM +0200, Vidar Normann wrote: > On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 12:16 AM, Ruslan Sivak <russ at vshift.com> wrote: > > Scott Silva wrote: > >> 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 Cool, citation! Glad that was useful to someone. Cheers, Gavin