More Qlogic driver madness.
Albert Graham
agraham at g-b.net
Thu May 29 23:09:38 UTC 2008
Mark Haney wrote:
> This is really getting silly. How is it possible that an initrd will
> not USE the firmware included with it to allow me to initialize my
> Qlogic FC card? I've built my own, I've read everything I can about
> initrd and initramfs and I'm still stuck. Are there tools included
> with Fedora that let me edit/muck initramfs settings? Or do I have to
> roll my own?
>
> I just don't get it, between FC6 2.6.20 and 2.6.22 kernels in FC6 this
> capability was broken and no one's complained? I'm really very
> tempted to file a bug report on this for F8 and hope it gets fixed
> that way, since I'm unable to find an answer.
>
Mark,
Try something like,
1. Add your qlogic entries to your /etc/modprobe.conf (so that step 3
below will include and load the drivers)
2. Backup your current initrd image
mv /boot/initrd-$(uname -r).img mv /boot/initrd-$(uname -r).img-OLD
3. Create a new initrd
mkinitrd -v /boot/initrd-$(uname -r).img $(uname -r)
If the card has a newer firmware version than the driver, it should not
use the driver version - normally.
Question: Why the need to build your own - they are included in Fedora,
check with:
ls -la /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/drivers/scsi/qla*
Albert.
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