Title: Re: [Sisuite-users] Re: no devfs support when using 3.5.3
Hi Charles:
 
The RPMs are built on a x86_64 system and thus only generated the x86_64 binaries - you'll need to rebuild the SRPM on a x86 system.
 
You cannot just copy the modules over because it has to match the kernel version.  The kernel version for x86 is 2.6.12.2 and I noticed that support for Marvell SATA wasn't added until 2.6.13.
 
I strongly suggest you try the UYOK route.  But if you really want to recompile the SystemImager kenel, a place to start is updating make.d/kernel.rul changing the kernel version for i386 (as well using a correct URL to d/l it), and also to make appropriate changes to patches/linux.i386.config (most notably CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_MV=m).
 
In regards to mounting the initird.img, you should be able to mount it on the loopback once you gunzip it - I can't remember whether it's writeable or not, though.
 
Cheers,
 
Bernard


From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Charles Galpin
Sent: Thu 05/01/2006 13:44
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Sisuite-users] Re: no devfs support when using 3.5.3

Hu Bernard

On Jan 5, 2006, at 12:58 AM, Bernard Li wrote:

> You can grab them here:
>  
> http://www.bcgsc.ca/downloads/oscar/systemimager/
>  
> (note this is NOT released and are simply development RPMs that I 
> built myself...)
>  
> You can grab either sets of RPMs, the "ips" one have support for a 
> newer ServeRAID which you may not need, but they're identical besides 
> that.

Thanks. I get the error

link_stat /usr/share/systemimager/boot/i386/standard/initrd_template/. 
: No such file or directory

None of the rpms contain this directory. I assume I have to install the 
src.rpm and build the server first? I thought the idea was to run this 
on the golden client.

> You don't really need SVN access to check code out, it supports 
> anonymous checkouts...
>  
> For checkout instructions, see the wiki:
>  
> http://wiki.sisuite.org/
>  
> Rebuilding SystemImager is not that hard after you get the hang of it, 
> but it does take a long time, so hopefully you have a fast machine...  
> Are you on x86_64 or x86?  For 3.6.3, I updated the x86_64 kernel to 
> 2.6.12.2. 

x86. I built 3.5.3 and it really didn't take that long.  But here is my 
problem, and excuse me if it's "stupid simple" but I can't figure out 
how to add the modules I want and repackage them like the flavors under 
  /usr/share/systemimager/boot/i386/. The drivers I have are not in the 
kernel tree. So if this were for a standalone server i'd build them, 
copy them over to /lib/modules/<kernel_ver>/kernel/drivers/scsi and 
make the initrd.img with mkinitrd.

I can't figure out how to do this with the systemimager kernel build 
process, and the server I am on doesn't have these cards in it either 
which I think usually helps the process (for me anyway).

I have tried to unpack the initrd and add it there, but on my system I 
can't seem to mount them, and get unexpected end of archive if i gunzip 
and cpio them.

> If you test the RPMs and it couldn't detect your hardware, you can let 
> me know which module is needed and I can compile it in and see if it 
> works for you.  Otherwise, UseYourOwnKernel may be your best bet.

I need 3x-9xxx and mv_sata.

http://3ware.com/support/windows_agree_engg.asp?path=/download/
productseng/9000/9.2.1/drivers/linux/src/2.6/3w-9xxx.tgz
ftp://ftp.abit.com.tw/pub/download/drivers/linux/marvell/mvsata340.zip

I really do appreciate the help, and would be glad if you wanted to add 
these, but I'd like to figure out how to do this myself. I'd be happy 
to wiki it for non-experts once done :)

thanks
charles



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