Fedora Core3: How to make Module-Disk for Installation, Problems with megaraid

[Andreas Tolle]

Am Mo, 2004-12-13 um 23.07 schrieb Rick Stevens:
> Andreas Tolle wrote:
> > Hallo,
> > 
> > I have an HP LC2000 machine with an HP-NetRAID 2M controller and 5 disks
> > in raid 5. He runs with Suse 9.1 and the 2.6.5 kernel very well using
> > the megaraid (old) module.
> > Now I want to setup the Server with the Fedora Core3.
> > At startup, he loads the megaraid.mbox modul, but no harddisks are
> > found. Also when I add "linux acpi=off apm=off" (without quotes) in the
> > startup-screen.
> > Now I want to add the megaraid.ko module from Suse via module-disk
> > during the Installation manually, but I don't know, whitch format is
> > needed.
> > Or is there a chance to get the inbuild driver megaraid.mbox for
> > running well?
> 
> I think the FC3 megaraid driver works well, but I can't tell you for
> certain.  Keep in mind that drivers such as that one are built against
> the kernel and use versioning so the megaraid driver built for the
> 2.6.5 kernel works ONLY with the 2.6.5 kernel.  The odds are that it
> won't work with the kernel installed with FC3 (2.6.9-1.667) even if you
> did make a driver disk for it.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer     rstevens at vitalstream.com -

I thought also, that the megaraid driver is supported in fc3, but
definite no in my case with my hp netraid. I have tested to install fc2
last evening, this runs well with the buildin megaraid driver.
You make mention of building a driver disk. Do you know, where I can
find any documentation about this?

Thank you!  Andreas