On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 10:57:19AM +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
> >
> >Hmm.. all of my files in the dd image look correct.
> >
> >In addition to the files above, I also have "pci.ids" file.
> >FC5 installer will give
> >"ERROR failed to open /tmp/drivers/pci.ids: No such file or directory"
> >error if I don't have that file on the dd image.
> >
> >"pci.ids", "pcitable" and "modules.pcimap" contain correct pci/device ids
> >(verified with lspci - and those files are taken from "official" qlogic
> >rhel4 qla4xxx dd image)
> >
> >$ ls -l
> >total 593
> >-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 85 Jun 15 14:22 modinfo
> >-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 603405 Jun 16 12:48 modules.cgz
> >-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 35 Jun 15 13:25 modules.dep
> >-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 273 Jun 15 13:34 modules.pcimap
> >-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 106 Jun 19 11:22 pci.ids
> >-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 192 Jun 15 13:25 pcitable
> >-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 41 Jun 15 13:27 rhdd
> >
> >$ cat modinfo
> >Version 0
> >qla4xxx
> > scsi
> > "Updated qla4xxx driver (5.00.04-d5) for 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5"
> >
> >$ cat modules.dep
> >qla4xxx: scsi_mod
> >sd_mod: scsi_mod
> >
> >$ cat modules.pcimap
> >qla4xxx 0x00001077 0x00004010 0xffffffff 0xffffffff
> >0x00000000 0x00000000 0x0
> >qla4xxx 0x00001077 0x00004022 0xffffffff 0xffffffff
> >0x00000000 0x00000000 0x0
> >qla4xxx 0x00001077 0x00004000 0xffffffff 0xffffffff
> >0x00000000 0x00000000 0x0
> >
> >$ cat pci.ids
> >1077 QLogic Corp.
> > 4010 QLA4010 iSCSI Adapter
> > 4022 QLA4022 iSCSI Adapter
> > 4000 QLA4000 iSCSI Adapter
> >
> >$ cat pcitable
> >0x1077 0x4000 "qla4xxx" "QLogic Corp.|QLA4000 iSCSI-AL Adapter"
> >0x1077 0x4010 "qla4xxx" "QLogic Corp.|QLA4010 iSCSI-AL Adapter"
> >0x1077 0x4022 "qla4xxx" "QLogic Corp.|QLA4022 iSCSI-AL Adapter"
> >
> >$ cat rhdd
> >Fedora Core 5 qla4xxx driver update disk
> >
> >modules.cgz:
> >$ ls -l 2*/*/*
> >-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1325007 Jun 19 11:39
> >2.6.15-1.2054_FC5/i586/qla4xxx.ko
> >-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 168288 Jun 19 11:39
> >2.6.15-1.2054_FC5/i686/qla4xxx.ko
> >-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 173628 Jun 19 11:39
> >2.6.15-1.2054_FC5smp/i686/qla4xxx.ko
> >
> >
> >fs of the dd image is vfat. FC5 installer didn't seem to like ext2.
> >
> >Hmm.. that i586 module seems to be a lot bigger than the i686 versions..
> >i586 version is compiled by hand, i686 versions are compiled automatically
> >by ddiskit.
>
> ddiskit probably strips the module.
> Try: strip -g 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5/i586/qla4xxx.ko
>
Yep.
> >
> >But anyway, FC5 installer doesn't like this image. It starts to read the
> >floppy ("Reading driver disk"), but it won't load the module. No errors in
> >the VC3.
> >In VC3 I see only this:
> >"INFO trying to mount sdb"
> >"INFO modules to insert"
> >"INFO load module set done"
> >
> >When I manually extract the i586 qla4xxx.ko from the dd image, I can load
> >it
> >fine with insmod..
> >
> >Any ideas? For some reason the installer doesn't even try to load the
> >qla4xxx module..
>
> Are you sure your actual hardware matches one of the PCI IDs listed?
> What's the output of "lspci -n"?
>
Yep, it does match. Verified with lspci -n.
And I'm able to install centos 4.3 with similar selfmade dd image to the same box..
I'm currently reading the anaconda installer sources to find out what's
happening.. anaconda/loader2/driverdisk.c
Good ideas very welcome.. :)
-- Pasi
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