On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 14:02:24 +0100 Emiliano Brunetti <emiliano_brunetti@xxxxxx> wrote: [...] > Well, this is weird indeed. > > Here it goes: > > - at job i run a custom kernel, i had to manually mkinitrd (thanks to > a clean and extremely helpful - to me! - post here on the list) and > looks to be working fine. Still some mess in loading modules on > startup, but i guess it has to do with some 'hurry' of mine in > configuring. It could be. If you want a fresh start, copy the right file from the (guess ;)) 'configs' dir, 'make dep bzImage modules modules_install install', and see if this one works. Then, you can cutomize it to your needs. TIP: once you get a kernel working, it might be worthy to keep it around. Sometimes I rename a specific kernel to 'safe', 'stable' or something like this, and I update GRUB/LILO accordingly. This way, no matter how I screw up with kenel configuration, I will always have a safe failover. > - LABEL is fully supported with RAM disk as you suggested (hitn: put > it somewhere on a FAQ! :) ) Agreed. It took me a while to figure it out... =/ > - at home, no way. Still fails to mkinitrd, and can't build a initrd > image manually. System complains that it can't find aic7xxx module. > However, modulues seem to be there in /lib/modules, and it is > definitely a major problem as this is a pure SCSI box. Now this is really weird. I would go for a 'clean' rebuild as suggested above to see if probl persists. I can't see no reason for a module effectively present at /lib/modules/[...] to be loaded -- does 'depmod -a' fail? Also, since you didn't seem very sure about the module being there, make sure you're looking at the right place. The root modules dir for a kernel is /lib/modules/[uname -r] (when the kernel is running -- otherwise you will get the version number for the wrong kernel!). > I am trying one last time, compiling aic7xxx support as a module. Then > i'll try *again* to erase and reinstall kernel source from rpm. After > this, i'd be kinda lost. You could try to compile it builtin (i.e. not as a module). Still, there is no reason for the module not to load cleanly, something's really wrong. Let us know if you make any improvements. Best, Andre -- Andre Oliveira da Costa
