Creating dd (driver disk) for FC5, installer "disagrees about version of symbol struct_module"

[Paul Howarth]

Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 11:58:19AM +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
>> Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
>>> On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 08:35:03AM +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
>>>> On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 00:00 +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
>>>>> Hi!
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm trying to build Qlogic qla4xxx HBA driver (floppy dd image) for FC5, 
>>>>> using
>>>>> ddiskit 0.9.5.
>>>>>
>>>>> I've successfully built the dd image for 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 and 
>>>>> 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5smp
>>>>> kernels. I had to manually add "modules.pcimap" and "pci.ids" files to 
>>>>> the
>>>>> generated image.. otherwise the FC5 installer complained that those files
>>>>> are missing from the dd image.
>>>>>
>>>>> When I boot FC5 CD with "linux dd", and try to load the driver disk, the
>>>>> installer doesn't load the driver.. If I try to load the driver manually
>>>>> with insmod (when in the installer) I get:
>>>>>
>>>>> qla4xxx: disagrees about version of symbol struct_module
>>>>>
>>>>> modinfo says:
>>>>>
>>>>> "vermagic:       2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 686 REGPARM 4KSTACKS gcc-4.1"
>>>>>
>>>>> Is that correct? Looks like correct to me..
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there something special compilation flags or something that I should 
>>>>> be
>>>>> using.. ?
>>>> Did you build the module for the i586 kernel or the i686 kernel? The
>>>> installer uses the i586 kernel.
>>>>
>>> No, I only built for i686 because "uname -a" says i686 during the
>>> installer.. oh well, my bad.
>>>
>>> I added the i586 build of the driver, but for some reason the installer
>>> doesn't like the dd image..
>>>
>>> Installer still says "No devices of the appropriate type were found on this
>>> driver disk."
>>>
>>> VC 3 (debug) says:
>>>
>>> INFO    : modules to insert
>>> INFO    : load module set done
>>>
>>> What does that mean? It doesn't even try to load the module? Something
>>> missing from my dd image.. ? 
>>>
>>> Same kind of self made dd image works with CentOS 4.2 / 4.3 installers.. 
>>> Has the format/layout of the dd images changed? 
>> There was a driver disk format change quite a while back back, but I'd 
>> have thought that CentOS 4.x would be using the new format. What's the 
>> directory hierarchy you have?
>>
>> I used to make driver disks for my old Advnsys SCSI card but that's been 
>> included in the installer kernel for FC5 :-)
>>
>> What I had for FC1, FC3, and FC4 was:
>>
>> # ls -l
>> total 684
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 paul paul     48 Aug 16  2004 modinfo
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 paul paul 648561 Jun 20  2005 modules.cgz
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 paul paul     19 Aug 13  2004 modules.dep
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 paul paul    392 May 18  2005 modules.pcimap
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 paul paul    281 Aug 13  2004 pcitable
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 paul paul     21 Aug 13  2004 rhdd
>>
>> # cat rhdd
>> Advansys Driver Disk
>> # cat modinfo
>> Version 0
>> advansys
>>         scsi
>>         "Advansys SCSI Cards"
>> # cat modules.dep
>> advansys: scsi_mod
>>
>> The moduleball was structured like this:
>> # ls -l 2*/*/*
>> -rwxr--r-- 1 root root 101164 Sep 24  2004 
>> 2.4.22-1.2115.nptl/athlon/advansys.o
>> -rwxr--r-- 1 root root  94204 Sep 24  2004 
>> 2.4.22-1.2115.nptlBOOT/i386/advansys.o
>> -rwxr--r-- 1 root root  98636 Sep 24  2004 
>> 2.4.22-1.2115.nptl/i586/advansys.o
>> -rwxr--r-- 1 root root 102412 Sep 24  2004 
>> 2.4.22-1.2115.nptl/i686/advansys.o
>> -rwxr--r-- 1 root root 101832 Sep 24  2004 
>> 2.4.22-1.2115.nptlsmp/athlon/advansys.o
>> -rwxr--r-- 1 root root 103176 Sep 24  2004 
>> 2.4.22-1.2115.nptlsmp/i686/advansys.o
>> -rwxr--r-- 1 paul paul 105488 Jun  3  2005 
>> 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4/i586/advansys.ko
>> -rwxr--r-- 1 paul paul 103848 Jun  3  2005 
>> 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4/i686/advansys.ko
>> -rwxr--r-- 1 paul paul 105468 Jun  3  2005 
>> 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4smp/i686/advansys.ko
>> -rwxr--r-- 1 root root  92680 Nov 12  2004 2.6.9-1.667/i586/advansys.ko
>> -rwxr--r-- 1 root root  93832 Nov 12  2004 2.6.9-1.667/i686/advansys.ko
>> -rwxr--r-- 1 root root  91720 Nov 12  2004 2.6.9-1.667smp/i586/advansys.ko
>> -rwxr--r-- 1 root root  96048 Nov 12  2004 2.6.9-1.667smp/i686/advansys.ko
>>
>>
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> At a first glance, I'm missing smp/i586/ module.. I'll have to examine
> it more next week. Let's see if that helps. 

I doubt it; I think that would only be needed if your target system 
would be using the i586 smp kernel.

Paul.