On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 12:56 +0100, robb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > Hi List > > I'm trying to update to the lastest kernel but I have a dirver that is not > inculded in the distrubution, and I had to use the driver disk when installing > centos 4.4 in the first place, The driver megasr .ko works fine with the > installed kernel but I cannot find on for the updated kernel, any adive would > be appreciated. > > without the updated driver there is a kernel panic on boot due to not finding > the correct hard drive controller driver Normally the megasr.ko should reside in /lib/modules/`uname -r`/updates You can copy it to the newer location (replace with your kernel number of course), issue depmod -a, recreate an initrd image that will contain the module , modify grub.conf and reboot. I've tested this for a low level entry IBM server that uses a fakeraid adapter See for example this post on the forum : http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=3615&forum=29&post_id=11852#forumpost11852 -- Fabian Arrotin <fabian.arrotin@xxxxxxxxxx> Solution ? echo '16i[q]sa[ln0=aln100%Pln100/snlbx]sbA0D4D465452snlbxq' | dc
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