Howto create a driver disk?

[Rainer Koenig]

Hi Paul,

thanks for your reply. But I'm still in trouble. :-(

Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> writes:

> You'll need the following files on the driver disk:
>
> modinfo
> modules.cgz
> modules.dep
> modules.pcimap
> pcitable
> rhdd

> Write that lot to a VFAT format floppy and you're done.

I tried. The first thing was that sata_sis.ko didn't load because there was
no libata. The only way around it was to add the libata to the modules.dep
and also to the modules.cgz since I don't know how to address the libata
that comes with the installation DVD in the modules.dep. 

The current status is that I can read my driver disk, but then if 
sata_sis is loaded I get this Ooops & kernel panic:


Oops: 0000 [#1]
Modules linked in: sata_sis(U) libata(U) ohci_hcd ehci_hcd sr_mod sd_mod scsi_mod pcspkr edd floppy loop nfs lockd sunrpc vfat fat cramfs
CPU:    0
EIP:    0060:[<00000000>]    Not tainted VLI
EFLAGS: 00010093   (2.6.11-1.1369_FC4) 
EIP is at _stext+0x3feffdc0/0x20
eax: dfaa9260   ebx: dfaa9260   ecx: c0415fb8   edx: f88db760
esi: dfa3e300   edi: dfa3e300   ebp: 00000000   esp: c044afa8
ds: 007b   es: 007b   ss: 0068
Process swapper (pid: 0, threadinfo=c044a000 task=c03b7ca0)
Stack: f88bc84f 00000000 00000286 dfaa971c 00000000 dfa6f9e0 00000000 c0415fb8 
       00000000 c014d9b3 00000005 c0413d00 dfa6f9e0 00000005 c044aff8 c014da9c 
       c0415fb8 c0415fa8 c0415fb8 00000005 004bb007 c0105a81 
Call Trace:
 [<f88bc84f>] ata_interrupt+0x14f/0x200 [libata]
 [<c014d9b3>] handle_IRQ_event+0x33/0x60
 [<c014da9c>] __do_IRQ+0xbc/0x2e0
 [<c0105a81>] do_IRQ+0x51/0x90

and so on. I just wonder what's wrong with it. :-/

Anyway, thanks for your help, even if it didn't help me in this case.

Regards
Rainer
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