[plug] Redhat and Mylex Acc170 install

[Michael De Santis]

Thanks Richard - that work perfectly.   I managed to complete the install and
reboot the machine. However now a new problem occurs when it reboots. The final
message before a Kernel Panic attack message appears is

exec /sbin/modprobe is block-major-48 errono 2

I suspect the new driver was not installed in the kernel during the installation.
Any help would be appreciated

regards
Michael



Richard Sharpe wrote:

> At 12:49 PM 10/5/00 +0800, Michael De Santis wrote:
> >   Redhat and Mylex Acc170 raid
> >  install problem   to install Red Hat 7 on that has
> >  I do a "Expert Install" from the Red Hat
> >install disk so that I can specify the "DAC960" driver as part of the
> >   falls over and does not add the device .
> >  Acc170 is a relatively new card I suspect that the
> >  does not support this model.   http://www.dandelion.com/Linux/DAC960.html
> > website for
> >more info, it states that a driver is available and can be added to the
> >  However since I have not yet installed linux on this machine I
> >cannot recompile the kernel with this new driver   with this
> >   can get carry on with the
> >installation.?
>
> I would think that you could put the driver on a DOS formatted floppy, then,
> early in the install, use ALT F2 to get to the shell prompt, mount the floppy:
>
>    mkdir /tmp/floppy
>    mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /tmp/floppy
>
> (if you have problems with vfat, try msdos)
>
> and then insmod the driver ...
>
>    insmod /tmp/floppy/driver-name
>
> You may have to try a few things to get the driver to load, depending on
> whether or not the install kernel is build with MOD_VERSIONS.
>
> Then you would back up to the point where it searches for devices ...
>
> Let us know how you manage ...
>
> >Or is there a better method to get out of this chicken
> >and egg scenario. Cheers
> >Michael
> >
> >
> >http://www.harvestroad.com
>
> Regards
> -------
> Richard Sharpe, sharpe at ns.aus.com
> Samba (Team member, www.samba.org), Ethereal (Team member, www.zing.org)
> Contributing author, SAMS Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours
> Author, Special Edition, Using Samba

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Michael De Santis                        michael at harvestroad.com
Systems Administrator                    Harvestroad Limited

                 http://www.harvestroad.com


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