Hi, On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 11:16 PM, Walton, Bryan K <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I've got a new Dell Poweredge server that needs two pieces of firmware > for it to work successfully. The first is the firmware for the Qlogic > Fiber Channel card. The second is firmware for a Broadcom ethernet > port. > > This box is running Debian Lenny. When I did the install of the > operating system, the Debian installer informed me that it needed > firmware for these two drivers and it prompted me to place the firmware > on to a USB stick. I did so, and the installation proceeded without any > problems. > > Then, I built a custom 2.6.27.19 kernel using the stock kernel source > from kernel.org. I didn't use the kernel-package, but rather a > standard, make bzImage, make modules, make modules_install, mkinitramfs > . . . as I've done for years. My two cents, "make modules" and "make bzImage" are not longer necessary [1]
> > However, when I attempted to reboot into the custom 2.6.27.19 kernel, > Debian informed me that it couldn't locate the qlogic firmware. > However, I have installed the following debian packages: > > firmware-bnx2 > firmware-qlogic > > and I see the firmware in /lib/firmware. The message I receive upon > boot is: > > Firmware image not available. > firmware images can be retrieve from > ftp://ftp.qlogic.com/outgoing/linux/firmware > Attempting to load (potentially outdated) firmware from flash > > I'm guessing that when I created my initrd image (using mkinitramfs) > that something didn't go right. Or am I missing some step? I think so, decompress your initrd image and check it. There is a bug [2] that could give a hint (note this is in sid version, so perhaps is not related) Regards, [1] http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.6/README?PAGE=diffs&REV=404431d7VECSMv89GcIcOlKdlD7zew [2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=521370 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
