Hi Jobst, I believe you'll need to build a new initrd image and include the driver modules. Try http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/CreateNewInitrd for a start. There are other guides out there too. Good luck! Stu On 23 August 2012 13:08, Jobst Schmalenbach <jobst at barrett.com.au> wrote: > Sorry, maybe I did not give enough information. > I have the drivers from adaptecs site (plus the kmod stuff). > > At least once I need to boot the rescue disk to select the > bootpartition and install grub on the new drives, I need to insmod > the drivers, but I do not know where and how to do that during > the boot process of the rescue disk (there is no menu for that). > > I have never had to do this before ... in all the years of using Linux ;-) > > > Jobst > > > > > On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 02:31:55AM -0700, John Doe (jdmls at yahoo.com) > wrote: > > From: Jobst Schmalenbach <jobst at barrett.com.au> > > > > > I got a new Adaptec 6405 card with a set of new harddrives. > > > Problem that I assumed that the card had kernel drivers, which it has > but only > > > from 2.6.39 onwards. > > > > > > I installed the kmod-aacraid drivers, they see the card and drives, > fine. > > > > > > However, I need to get a "linux rescue" to work, thus I need to load > > > the drivers during the boot of the resuce disk. > > > How do I do this? > > > > Tried adaptec's driver disk? > > > http://www.adaptec.com/en-us/speed/raid/aac/linux/aacraid_linux_driverdisks_v1_1_7-29100_tgz.htm > > > > JD > > _______________________________________________ > > CentOS mailing list > > CentOS at centos.org > > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -- > while ( !sorted ) { do_nothing ( ) ; } > > | |0| | Jobst Schmalenbach, jobst at barrett.com.au, General Manager > | | |0| Barrett Consulting Group P/L & The Meditation Room P/L > |0|0|0| +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Stu "Did I do that deja-vu joke?"