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Re: [Xen-devel] Installation trouble on Dell Poweredge SC420

On Tue, 2004-12-14 at 16:37 +0000, Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 11:27:29AM -0500, Paul Pianta wrote:
> > On Tue, 2004-12-14 at 15:16 +0000, Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha wrote:
> > 
> > > > 
> > > > Is there any way to force load the aic79xx driver to load on the grub
> > > > command line?
> > > 
> > > Try mkinitrd's --with option.
> > 
> > Yeah I was thinking about using an initrd but was not sure how to go
> > about it considering the host machine is CentOS with a
> > 2.4.21-20.0.1.ELsmp kernel and the Xen kernel is 2.6.9. Can I run the
> > mkinitrd command from Centos and have it build me an initrd suitable for
> > booting Xen?
> 
> mkinitrd builds an initrd for the kernel that you specify, so you can
> build one for 2.6.9 while running under 2.4.21.

If I download the Xen source - do I need to copy to a specific place so
that mkinitrd will find it when I specify the 2.6.9 kernel?

Maybe I need to read up on mkinitrd a bit :)

> But are you sure the xen kernel has support for the aic? Either built in
> or as a module?

Yeah I downloaded the source for Xen (stable) and when i ran menuconfig
I saw that the module was (*) so I'm pretty sure it is in there. And I
even grabbed a few lines from the kernel rebuild output just for this
list ...

---snip---

  SHIPPED drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic79xx_seq.h
  SHIPPED drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic79xx_reg.h
  CC      drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic79xx_core.o
  CC      drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic79xx_pci.o
  SHIPPED drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic79xx_reg_print.c
  CC      drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic79xx_reg_print.o
  CC      drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic79xx_osm.o
drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic79xx_osm.c:419: warning: `aic79xx' defined but
not used
drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic79xx_osm.c:425: warning: `dummy_buffer' defined
but not used
  CC      drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic79xx_proc.o
  CC      drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7
  LD      drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx.o
  LD      drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic79xx.o
  LD      drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/built-in.o
  LD      drivers/scsi/pcmcia/built-in.o
  LD      drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/built-in.o
  CC      drivers/scsi/3w-xxxx.o
  LD      drivers/scsi/libata.o
  CC      drivers/scsi/ata_piix.o
9xx_osm_pci.o
  SHIPPED drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx_seq.h
  SHIPPED drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx_reg.h
  CC      drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx_core.o
  CC      drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx_93cx6.o
  CC      drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx_pci.o
  SHIPPED drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx_reg_print.c
  CC      drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx_reg_print.o
  CC      drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx_osm.o
drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx_osm.c:440: warning: `aic7xxx' defined but
not used
drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx_osm.c:446: warning: `dummy_buffer' defined
but not used
  CC      drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx_proc.o
  CC      drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx_osm_pci.o
  LD      drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx.o
  LD      drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic79xx.o
  LD      drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/built-in.o
  LD      drivers/scsi/pcmcia/built-in.o
  LD      drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/built-in.o
  CC      drivers/scsi/3w-xxxx.o
  LD      drivers/scsi/libata.o
  CC      drivers/scsi/ata_piix.o

---snip---

So I believe that the module is built in to the kernel - but then again
I could very easily be wrong ...

thanks for your time Luciano

-- 
pAntZ

Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when
you do criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes!



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