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Florian Philipp wrote: |
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> On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 14:31 -0400, Benjamen R. Meyer wrote: |
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>> Florian Philipp wrote: |
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>>> On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 12:35 -0400, Benjamen R. Meyer wrote: |
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>>>> How can |
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>>>> I mount the initrd image to verify it has the modules, etc. and verify |
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>>>> it is a valid image? |
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>>> There is a wiki-entry about it: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Initramfs |
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>> Ok, so I used zcat to decompress the image, and then cpio to extract the |
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>> data to a temporary folder. (The instructions on the wiki didn't work |
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>> for some reason...complaints about finding cpio and zcat complaining |
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>> about arguments). Any how... |
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>> I snooped around the extracted files and was unable to find either the |
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>> qla2xxx module (or the qla2200 modules, or any modules for that matter) |
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>> or the qla2200 firmware. The firmware is on the hard drive (/dev/sda1 -> |
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>> /lib/firmward/qla2200_fw.bin), and so is the module - |
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>> /lib/modules/2.6.24-gentoo-r3/kernel/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla2xxx.ko. Is |
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>> the initrd image invalid?? Or are they stored somehow in the files |
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>> non-obviously? |
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>> How could I easily add them to the initrd image? (This is really my |
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>> first time playing with initrd images...) |
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> They are in lib/modules. I think it should work if you just copy the |
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> modules to their respective folder and add their names to the respective |
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> file in etc/modules. |
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Okay, I tried this two ways: |
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1) touched files in /etc/modules with the module names. (Probably not |
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right) - didn't work. |
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2) added all the files in |
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/lib/modules/2.6.24-gentoo-r3/kernel/drivers/scsi and sub-directories to |
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/etc/modules/scsi - didn't work. Perhaps I need to add the information |
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for the firmware??? |
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> To create a initrd new initrd, use the following command: |
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> find . | cpio --quiet --dereference -o -H newc | gzip -9 >/boot/initrd |
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Okay, used this instead of the lengthy process I was doing before: |
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find ./ | cpio -H newc -o > /boot/initrd.bmeyer.cpio |
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gzip /boot/initrd.bmeyer.cpio |
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mv /boot/initrd.bmeyer.cpio.gz /boot/initrd.bmeyer |
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Any how...still stuck. Think I'm further along..but don't know. |
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FYI - right after it runs 'mdev' there is a line saying it can't find |
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'ls'...not sure if that is an error with mdev, or an error after mdev. |
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Either way, I can't find out since the system goes unusable until I |
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reboot manually (cycle power). |
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TIA, |
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Ben |
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