Hi All,
I have an "appliance" cd which uses CentOS 4.0 (Final) which I am trying to load on a new Dell 1950 server with a SAS driver controller. During the install it fails to find any disks to load to. I got the drivers from Dell and dd the correct one to a floppy, boot from the appliance cd and enter linux dd at the prompt. I load the driver in the install and it still fails to find any disks.
I have looked at the virtual consoles after the module disk and I see some strange information:
failed to open /tmp/drivers/modules.pcimap: no such file or directory
failed to open /tmp/drviers/pci.ids: no such file or directory
.....
modules to insert mptbase mptscsih mptsas
module(s) mptbase mptscsih mptsas not found
So the driver disk is loading but....it can't find the modules. So I went on looking at the driver disk and found:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 48 Dec 20 2005 disk-info
drwx------ 2 root root 12288 Dec 20 2005 lost+found
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 330 Dec 20 2005 modinfo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 817645 Dec 20 2005 modules.cgz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 116 Dec 20 2005 modules.dep
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 52852 Dec 20 2005 packages.py
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 993 Dec 20 2005 pcitable
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 32 Dec 20 2005 rhdd
So I figured out that modules.cgz is zip and cpio'd, I undid it and this is what is in that archive:
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Dec 21 14:22 2.6.9-11.EL
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Dec 21 14:22 2.6.9-11.ELhugemem
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Dec 21 14:22 2.6.9-11.ELsmp
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Dec 21 14:22 2.6.9-22.EL
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Dec 21 14:22 2.6.9-22.ELhugemem
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Dec 21 14:22 2.6.9-22.ELsmp
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Dec 21 14:22 2.6.9-5.EL
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Dec 21 14:22 2.6.9-5.ELhugemem
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Dec 21 14:22 2.6.9-5.ELsmp
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3850 Dec 20 2005 fusion.mptctl
This seemed strange to me because CentOS 4.0 uses kernel 2.6.9-5.0.3.EL. So my question is could that be why the modules can not be found? If so what changes do I need to make to this driver disk to get working on CentOS 4.0?
The controller is LSISAS1068
Sorry for the long post and thanks for the help.
Glenn
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Glenn MacGregor
HighStreet Networks
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