[Leaplist] install centos5 with lsi "driver" disk

[Richard F. Ostrow Jr.]

Oh, one more thing:

If you're trying to streamline this into the installation process, and the
install doesn't offer you a shell before installing anything (poor
design), then you'll have to edit the initrd image to load the kernel
modules (which means you'll have to add them to the initrd image).

All I can tell you there without digging too deep is that the initrd image
can be "mounted" as a loopback device. It may or may not be compressed
with gzip compression (sometimes there's no .gz extension when they do
this), so you may need to decompress it before mounting it. Good luck.
On Mon, June 15, 2009 7:33 pm, Ingo Claro wrote:
> Hello List:
> I have a supermicro server 1015v-m3 server with SATA disks. I can't
> install linux as it doesn't recognize the disks.
> I have made a raid-0 device with only 1 disk but it still doesn't shows
> up :(, so i downloaded the lsi driver from
> http://www.lsi.com/cm/License.do?url=http://www.lsi.com/DistributionSystem/AssetDocument/MPTLINUX_RHEL5_SLES10_PH16-4.18.00.00-1.zip&prodName=LSISAS1068E&subType=Driver&locale=EN
> compiled it in another box for centos kernel 2.6.18-128, but i don't
> know how to load the .ko files in the instalation process.
>
> I have a usb pen drive with syslinux and the instalation images, and I
> normaly install using a kickstart with the instalation media via http.
> there are my syslinux lines:
>
> label centos64
> kernel vmlinuz64
> append initrd=initrd64.img
>
> those two images are from centos/5/os/x86_64/isolinux/initrd.img and
> centos/5/os/x86_64/isolinux/vmlinuz from the instalation media renamed.
>
> I got these .ko files generated after making the srpm from lsi:
> mptbase.ko
> mptctl.ko
> mptfc.ko
> mptlan.ko
> mptsas.ko
> mptscsih.ko
> mptspi.ko
>
> regards,
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