fusion-MPT

[Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D.]

Looks like a regression bug. You should file a bug report at

        http://bugzilla.kernel.org/

-Joseph
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On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 09:15 +0100, peter.g.harper at magnox.co.uk wrote:
> Joseph,
> 
> I did all of that, although I used mkinitrd rather than
> /sbin/new-kernel-pkg.
>  I've had to rebuild the kernel several times, first to apply the patch to
> stop the fans from running at full speed, and then to enable Fibre Channel
> and LVM
> support, I'm getting quite comfortable with the process now. That all
> worked perfectly for 2.6.8.
> 
> I can build a kernel for 2.6.10 which works too, but when I add support for
> the Fibre Channel
> it just won't boot. It gets to the point in the boot process where it would
> detect the Fibre Channel
> disks and just stops. The same thing happened when I tried 2.6.9.
> 
> I seem to have solved my particular problem now however. I took the 2.6.8.1
> source from
> www.kernel.org and patched in the tree below fs/ as well as
> include/linux/fs.h into the YDL
> 2.6.8 and that built quite happily. The problem I had with NFS seems to
> have gone.
> 
> There just seem to be something in 2.6.9 and 2.6.10 that stops the kernel
> from finding
> the Fibre Channel disks.
> 
> 
> Peter
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> "Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D." <joseph_sacco at comcast.net> on 16/05/2005 18:16:41
> 
> 
> To:         Peter G Harper/Magnox/Berkeley/BNFL at BNFL
> cc:
> Fax to:
> Subject:    fusion-MPT
> 
> 
> 
> When you rebuilt the kernel, what did you do to install the new kernel?
> maybe there's an issue there.
> 
> When I rebuild a kernel, it has a new name, for example
> 
>       vmlinux-2.6.10-2
> 
> Take a look at
> 
>       path-to-kernel-source/include/linux/version.h
> 
> to determine the name of your new kernel.
> 
> * install kernel and system map
> 
>       vmlinux -> /boot/vmlinux-2.6.10-2
>         System.map -> /boot/System.map-2.6.10-2
> 
> * install modules
> 
>       make modules_install
> 
> * generate a new /boot/initrd file
> 
>       /sbin/new-kernel-pkg --rminitrd --rmmoddep --remove 2.6.10-2
>       /sbin/new-kernel-pkg --mkinitrd --depmod --install 2.6.10-2
> 
> * edit /etc/yaboot.conf
> Add an entry for the new kernel:
> 
>       image=/boot/vmlinux-2.6.10-2
>         label=linux
>         read-only
>         initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.10-2.img
>         root=/dev/sdb4
>         append="rhgb quiet"
> 
> * install the yaboot boot loader to the bootstrap partition:
> RUN:
>        /sbin/ybin -v         [-v to see what it's doing]
> 
> -Joseph
> 
> 
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