Creating dd (driver disk) for FC5, installer "disagrees about version of symbol struct_module"

[Paul Howarth]

Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 10:57:19AM +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
>>> Hmm.. all of my files in the dd image look correct.
>>>
>>> In addition to the files above, I also have "pci.ids" file. 
>>> FC5 installer will give 
>>> "ERROR failed to open /tmp/drivers/pci.ids: No such file or directory" 
>>> error if I don't have that file on the dd image.
>>>
>>> "pci.ids", "pcitable" and "modules.pcimap" contain correct pci/device ids
>>> (verified with lspci - and those files are taken from "official" qlogic 
>>> rhel4 qla4xxx dd image)
>>>
>>> $ ls -l
>>> total 593
>>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root     85 Jun 15 14:22 modinfo
>>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 603405 Jun 16 12:48 modules.cgz
>>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root     35 Jun 15 13:25 modules.dep
>>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root    273 Jun 15 13:34 modules.pcimap
>>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root    106 Jun 19 11:22 pci.ids
>>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root    192 Jun 15 13:25 pcitable
>>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root     41 Jun 15 13:27 rhdd
>>>
>>> $ cat modinfo
>>> Version 0
>>> qla4xxx
>>>        scsi
>>>        "Updated qla4xxx driver (5.00.04-d5) for 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5"
>>>
>>> $ cat modules.dep
>>> qla4xxx: scsi_mod
>>> sd_mod: scsi_mod
>>>
>>> $ cat modules.pcimap
>>> qla4xxx              0x00001077 0x00004010 0xffffffff 0xffffffff 
>>> 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x0
>>> qla4xxx              0x00001077 0x00004022 0xffffffff 0xffffffff 
>>> 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x0
>>> qla4xxx              0x00001077 0x00004000 0xffffffff 0xffffffff 
>>> 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x0
>>>
>>> $ cat pci.ids
>>> 1077  QLogic Corp.
>>>        4010  QLA4010 iSCSI Adapter
>>>        4022  QLA4022 iSCSI Adapter
>>>        4000  QLA4000 iSCSI Adapter
>>>
>>> $ cat pcitable
>>> 0x1077  0x4000  "qla4xxx"       "QLogic Corp.|QLA4000 iSCSI-AL Adapter"
>>> 0x1077  0x4010  "qla4xxx"       "QLogic Corp.|QLA4010 iSCSI-AL Adapter"
>>> 0x1077  0x4022  "qla4xxx"       "QLogic Corp.|QLA4022 iSCSI-AL Adapter"
>>>
>>> $ cat rhdd
>>> Fedora Core 5 qla4xxx driver update disk
>>>
>>> modules.cgz:
>>> $ ls -l 2*/*/*
>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1325007 Jun 19 11:39 
>>> 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5/i586/qla4xxx.ko
>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  168288 Jun 19 11:39 
>>> 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5/i686/qla4xxx.ko
>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  173628 Jun 19 11:39 
>>> 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5smp/i686/qla4xxx.ko
>>>
>>>
>>> fs of the dd image is vfat. FC5 installer didn't seem to like ext2.
>>>
>>> Hmm.. that i586 module seems to be a lot bigger than the i686 versions.. 
>>> i586 version is compiled by hand, i686 versions are compiled automatically
>>> by ddiskit.
>> ddiskit probably strips the module.
>> Try: strip -g 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5/i586/qla4xxx.ko
>>
> 
> Yep.
> 
>>> But anyway, FC5 installer doesn't like this image. It starts to read the
>>> floppy ("Reading driver disk"), but it won't load the module. No errors in 
>>> the VC3. 
>>> In VC3 I see only this: 
>>> "INFO  trying to mount sdb"
>>> "INFO  modules to insert"
>>> "INFO  load module set done"
>>>
>>> When I manually extract the i586 qla4xxx.ko from the dd image, I can load 
>>> it
>>> fine with insmod..
>>>
>>> Any ideas? For some reason the installer doesn't even try to load the
>>> qla4xxx module.. 
>> Are you sure your actual hardware matches one of the PCI IDs listed? 
>> What's the output of "lspci -n"?
>>
> 
> Yep, it does match. Verified with lspci -n.
> 
> And I'm able to install centos 4.3 with similar selfmade dd image to the same box..
> 
> I'm currently reading the anaconda installer sources to find out what's
> happening.. anaconda/loader2/driverdisk.c 
> 
> Good ideas very welcome.. :)

Given that your driver disk building process seems OK judging by the 
success on Centos 4.3, this may be worth a bugzilla ticket on FC5 
anaconda; you might get some help from the "other side of the fence" 
that way.

Paul.