Re: [CentOS] Installation troubles

2007-09-17 Thread Chuck Campbell
On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 10:11:35PM +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote: This is one the major issues with the Linux process these days, as you move from kernel to kernel there is almost zero assurance of driver abi/api stability - and that in turn creates a situation like this wherein one kernel

Re: [CentOS] Installation troubles

2007-09-13 Thread Chuck Campbell
On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 08:06:03PM +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote: Chuck Campbell wrote: http://pastebin.ca/693896 http://pastebin.ca/693905 As you have already pointed out in this email, yes - the installtime kernel does see the drives fine. Thanks for your help, I appreciate it! -chuck

Re: [CentOS] Installation troubles

2007-09-13 Thread Chuck Campbell
On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 08:10:32PM +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote: Chuck Campbell wrote: If you want to keep the driver in-place even when the kernel updates, you might want to investigate the weak-updates process and how you might get a driver included into that. Pretty much everything you

Re: [CentOS] Installation troubles

2007-09-13 Thread Karanbir Singh
Chuck Campbell wrote: how exactly where you planning on managing out-of-tree kernel drivers otherwise ? I've no idea... I've never had to deal with this before, so I didn't even understand this could be an issue. This is one the major issues with the Linux process these days, as you move

Re: [CentOS] Installation troubles

2007-09-12 Thread Chuck Campbell
On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 10:37:05PM +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote: Chuck Campbell wrote: Bothe kernels see the card though (looking in /var/log/messages after boot. Can you post the output from 'dmesg; lsmod; lspci -n' booting the installtime kernel at http://pastebin.ca/ and post the url to

Re: [CentOS] Installation troubles

2007-09-12 Thread Chuck Campbell
On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 05:19:07PM +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote: If you want to keep the driver in-place even when the kernel updates, you might want to investigate the weak-updates process and how you might get a driver included into that. Pretty much everything you need to make it happen

Re: [CentOS] Installation troubles

2007-09-12 Thread Karanbir Singh
Chuck Campbell wrote: http://pastebin.ca/693896 http://pastebin.ca/693905 As you have already pointed out in this email, yes - the installtime kernel does see the drives fine. -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___

Re: [CentOS] Installation troubles

2007-09-12 Thread Karanbir Singh
Chuck Campbell wrote: If you want to keep the driver in-place even when the kernel updates, you might want to investigate the weak-updates process and how you might get a driver included into that. Pretty much everything you need to make it happen would be on the system already. Where do I

Re: [CentOS] Installation troubles

2007-09-11 Thread Chuck Campbell
On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 01:07:50PM -0700, mark pryor wrote: This is what you said in the OP quote The intent is to install the OS onto the 2-320GB drives on the motherboard controller (preferrably in a raid 1 configuration). The other disks are for our data requirements. /quote

Re: [CentOS] Installation troubles

2007-09-11 Thread Karanbir Singh
Chuck Campbell wrote: Unfortunately I can't see my 3ware raid arrays now... I'm getting a bit frustrated. Are you using a 3ware-96xx card that you need a driver disk ? -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ CentOS mailing

Re: [CentOS] Installation troubles

2007-09-11 Thread Karanbir Singh
Chuck Campbell wrote: The system now boots, so I ran a yum update, which updated 156 packages. The kernel was updated too, so I set it up to boot the new xen kernel. Depending on the way your Driverdisk is setup - it would have only installed the drivers for the kernel you installed

Re: [CentOS] Installation troubles

2007-09-11 Thread Chuck Campbell
On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 05:19:07PM +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote: Chuck Campbell wrote: The system now boots, so I ran a yum update, which updated 156 packages. The kernel was updated too, so I set it up to boot the new xen kernel. Depending on the way your Driverdisk is setup - it would have

Re: [CentOS] Installation troubles

2007-09-11 Thread Karanbir Singh
Chuck Campbell wrote: Bothe kernels see the card though (looking in /var/log/messages after boot. Can you post the output from 'dmesg; lsmod; lspci -n' booting the installtime kernel at http://pastebin.ca/ and post the url to that here.. -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : [EMAIL

Re: [CentOS] Installation troubles

2007-09-08 Thread Chuck Campbell
On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 03:32:55PM -0700, mark pryor wrote: Chuck Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a new machine I'm trying to install Centos 5.0 on and I'm not getting very far. Chuck, I'm suprised that the raid array wasn't named as /dev/mapper/isw_xxxyyyxxx raid arrays

Re: [CentOS] Installation troubles

2007-09-08 Thread mark pryor
Chuck Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 03:32:55PM -0700, mark pryor wrote: Chuck Campbell wrote: I have a new machine I'm trying to install Centos 5.0 on and I'm not getting very far. Chuck, I'm suprised that the raid array wasn't named as

[CentOS] Installation troubles

2007-09-07 Thread Chuck Campbell
I have a new machine I'm trying to install Centos 5.0 on and I'm not getting very far. The system is 2 dual core xeons (5160, 3.0 GHZ) w/ 8GB ram. It has two 320 GB disks on the motherboard controller (Supermicro X7DAE+), and 8 750 GB disks on a 3ware 9650SE-8ml, pcie (x4) controller card. The

Re: [CentOS] Installation troubles

2007-09-07 Thread mark pryor
Chuck Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a new machine I'm trying to install Centos 5.0 on and I'm not getting very far. The system is 2 dual core xeons (5160, 3.0 GHZ) w/ 8GB ram. It has two 320 GB disks on the motherboard controller (Supermicro X7DAE+), and 8 750 GB disks on a 3ware