FC5/FC6t1 Anaconda dd (driver disk) problem / help needed for debugging

[Pasi Kärkkäinen]

Hi again.

I'm still trying to figure out this stuff.. 

Would be nice to get this working in FC6.. and to figure out why it's not
working with FC5/FC6t1.

- Pasi

On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 12:56:57PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> First of all, this is not an "end user support request".
> 
> I need help debugging possible anaconda bug.. or to find out reason why my
> driver disks won't work with fc5/fc6test1. I'm willing to help and debug to
> resolve this.
> 
> So.. I have hardware with Qlogic qla4xxx iSCSI HBA. These are not supported
> by the default kernels, so I need to create driver disk for FC installer.
> 
> I have successfully created qla4xxx driver disk (floppy) image for RHEL4 and
> CentOS4. These images work well. dd images generated in the same way won't
> work with fc5/fc6test.. Looking at the anaconda repo, it seems there has
> been quite many changes since rhel4 to fc5/fc6test1.. that's the reason I
> believe this might be an anaconda bug.. 
> 
> I used ddiskit 0.9.5 to create the images, and then added some missing files
> ("modules.pcimap" and "pci.ids") from the "official" Qlogic RHEL4 dd images.
> FC5/FC6test1 installers will give errors without those two missing files, so
> I needed to add them manually to the dd images.
> 
> But anyway.. these dd images won't work with the FC installers. Either the
> installer won't give any error, or then it says "No devices of the appropriate
> type were found on this driver disk". In both cases the driver module
> (qla4xxx) is not loaded.
> 
> The driver modules are built for the kernels used by the installers. 
> I am able to manually insmod the drivers during the installer (after
> manually extracting the modules from the dd). So the drivers/modules itself
> are fine - there's something else wrong with the dd images I create - or a
> bug in anaconda..
> 
> It seems that during the first time I try to load the dd, installer won't
> give any error.. and it seems to load the tg3 module for the NIC?! (when looking
> VC3). When I try to load the dd second time, it will give the following error: 
> "No devices of the appropriate type were found on this driver disk".
> 
> I have also verified that the PCI ids are correct (with lspci -n).
> RHEL4/CentOS4 install just fine to the same box using same kind of selfmade dd.
> 
> 
> Discussion about the problem:
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2006-June/msg02419.html
> 
> Contents of my dd images (at the end of the msg):
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2006-June/msg03052.html
> 
> Anaconda bug:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=195899
> 
> 
> All help appreciated. Thanks!
> 
> 
> -- Pasi Kärkkäinen
>