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

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Thu Jun 29 11:34:32 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-06-29 at 13:38 +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 11:41:07AM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 12:16:28PM +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
> > > Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> > > >>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.
> > > 
> > 
> > I submitted bugzilla entry about this.. 
> > 
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=195899
> > 
> 
> Not much comments/help.. :(
> 
> Any ideas how I could debug this? 
> 
> The driver modules itself are OK.. I can successfully load them by using
> insmod during the installer.. so how can I figure out the problem with the
> other files on dd? All the files look OK to me.

You'll probably have to try debugging it yourself. You could try the
anaconda devel list but I didn't get any help there when I was having
driver disk issues...

I suppose there's always fedora-devel-list too.

Paul.





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