With this method, I've had very little success in the past when I was trying to boot off of a USB device. What I ended up doing is leaving the kernel options to the default and editing my initrd.img file. You won't have to mess with any kernel options. You can find your initrd file in /boot and this is simply a gzip'd file. change its extension to a .gz then gzip -d it. Mount the resulting file to any directory with mount -o loop initrd <directory> and edit your linuxrc file to insmod the raid module ( not sure which it is) and make sure that the driver is located in the mount directories lib folder. umount it, gzip it, rename it, stick it back into the boot folder, make sure your grub.conf or whatever bootloader is pointed to your raid device and hopefully you'll be booting off that device in no time.
Ed
From: Ian L <redhat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reply-To: redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx To: redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: compiling fasttrak raid driver in with latest RH kernel Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 12:49:41 -0800
ran into some problems trying to boot off a promise fasttrak tx2000 raid controller. Apparently the driver that promise supplies only works with the original RH9 kernel. They said if i want to run with the latest kernel, i would need to recompile the kernel with the source code from their driver.
I really dont have any clue how to do this ... googling it and getting some bits and pieces of info. But i was hoping someone here might have done this before and can tell me the correct procedure. (or point me to a link with the correct procedure).
thanks,
ian
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