[CentOS] Loading drivers during "linux rescue"

Thu Aug 23 12:08:19 UTC 2012
Jobst Schmalenbach <jobst at barrett.com.au>

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
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