Compiling iteraid driver for use at installation

Paul Gear paul at gear.dyndns.org
Tue Feb 24 20:25:56 UTC 2004


Jay Turner wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 06:02:56PM +1000, Paul Gear wrote:
> 
>>So my questions are:
>>
>>- If i install FC1 on a non-RAID hard disk in the same system, the
>>iteraid driver i built from a running system works fine.  So there must
>>be something different about the installer kernel and the runtime
>>kernel.  What is it?
>>
>>- If i assuming rightly that the installation kernel doesn't use
>>kernel versioning, how can i compile a module that will make the
>>module correctly for use in the installer?  I've gone through the "make
>>mrproper, make config, make dep, make" routine on the default kernel,
>>and i've come up with the same result.
>>...
> Have a look at the Device Driver Update Disk stuff which Doug Ledford has
> put together.  It can be found at http://people.redhat.com/dledford.  This
> will explain how to create a driver disk which is utilized as part of the
> installation process, which sounds like is just what you need.

Thanks - i'll check it out.  I'd settle for just the right compile flags
so i can insmod the driver from the shell, though.  ;-)
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Paul
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