On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 01:02:23PM -0700, Ravi Anand wrote: > >"modules.alias" is now required file, and "pcitable" is not used anymore. > Nice to know. I guess keeping it backward compatible is going > to save a lot of headache for other people. Or anacoda > is modified to let user know that this dd kit > is using old format which is not supported anymore. > For new format the requirement is to use module.alias instead of pcitable. > > Basically some notification to let user know what's wrong with their ddkit. > This driver disk bug is now fixed in anaconda cvs, see comment #18: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=195899 - Pasi > Ravi > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: fedora-devel-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Pasi Kärkkäinen > Sent: Thu 9/14/2006 2:01 AM > To: fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: FC6t2 Anaconda/installer bug with dd: loads wrong module > > > Problem solved.. > > Driver disk format has changed since RHEL4. > FC5 and FC6 (and upcoming RHEL5) are using the new format. > > "modules.alias" is now required file, and "pcitable" is not used anymore. > > The checks for these files are broken in FC6 test2, but will be hopefully > fixed in the later versions. > > So if you don't have "pcitable" file installer/anaconda will tell you the driver > disk is broken.. but that file is not used anymore, the check is bogus. Also the > installer does not check the existence of "modules.alias", which is a required file > now.. if that file is missing, the driver disk will _not_ be loaded. > > Jeremy Katz from Redhat helped to solve this problem. > > Hopefully the documentation for FC6/RHEL5 will be updated with this new > information/format. > > - Pasi > > On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 08:34:31PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I'm using IBM Blade servers with Qlogic qla4xxx iSCSI HBA adapters. > > > > Fedora Core kernels don't include the qla4xxx driver for these HBAs. > > > > I've made my own custom driver disk (dd) images for FC6 test2 [1], but can't get > > these images to work. Same kind of custom made dd images work well in RHEL4.. so > > something has changed with the driver disk support, I just can't figure out what. > > > > The problem seems to be that fedora installer (anaconda) loads wrong > > module.. for some unknown reason it loads tg3 module instead of qla4xxx. See > > screenshots [2]. > > > > If I load the cd/floppy dd-images over http, then the installer won't load > > anything.. and just gives error: "no devices of the appropriate type were > > found on this driver disk". In this case the tg3 is already loaded.. > > > > My driver disk (dd) images [1] look like 100% OK to me.. PCI IDs are double > > checked. In fact all the files containing PCI IDs are the same as in RHEL4 > > dd images (which work OK). I've also checked the "official" qla4xxx dd > > images for RHEL4 by Qlogic. My images look like the same (except that the > > modules are compiled for FC kernels - of course). > > > > Ravi Anand from Qlogic also checked out my dd image, and said it looks > > correct. > > > > I had the same issue with FC5 also.. > > > > So, what has changed after RHEL4 in the driver disk handling? > > I think it Would be quite important to get this working for final FC6.. and RHEL5. > > > > Thanks! > > > > [1] http://pasik.reaktio.net/fc-dd/ > > [2] http://pasik.reaktio.net/fc-dd/problem_screenshots/ > > > > -- Pasi > > -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
