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  • From: Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>
  • To: Karsten Behrmann <BearPerson AT gmx.net>
  • Cc: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] More scsi modules (Was: 0.9.5-test2 is out)
  • Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 12:25:15 -0700 (PDT)

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On Sat, 24 Sep 2005, Karsten Behrmann wrote:
Hi all!
First, thanks for testing yet again :-)

On Sat, 24 Sep 2005 03:06:58 +0200, Ladislav Hagara wrote:

There's Yet Another Testing ISO out ;-)
This one fixes the last bugs spotted on -test1 and might be
almost identical to what we'll release as 0.9.5.


Playing with it. For now fail. But it is my shortage, I had to compile
kernel and forgot something.
If you grabbed the ISO before the announcement, there was one on the mirror
for like 20 hours that didn't yet support the new names for the kernel
images, so if the bootloader couldn't find the kernel after rebooting,
that might be the problem.

Of course, there is always the very slim chance that something went wrong
during ISO generation and the thing doesn't boot at all. In that case,
we can put out a new ISO in probably 30 minutes.

I have new box for playing and it needs mptspi, mptscsih and mptbase
modules (for SCSI disk).
These modules are on install ISO but I have to load them manually.
I am able to stop installation, run modprobe from shell (Alt-F2) and
load them and after that Alt-F1 and continue, fdisk, ....

While booting ISO we can load modules. It is great but no for mpt...
modules.
Is possible to add directory drivers/messages/fusion/ to that list. Same
as drivers/scsi, drivres/usb, ...?
ISO with this directory/modules could be used as recovery CD for me.

If that modules were built in kernel all could be without problems. :-)

Sure, here's what we can do:

1. Put modules on the initrd
=> All I need is the directory they are in, and I can put them in

Doesn't the initrd menu just list the module directories available in
/lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers or you have to manually add
those directories?

2. Build modules into kernel
=> I just need to know where they are in the kernel config

3. Copy module load menu into the installer
=> You'd have another "load modules" menu in the main installer menu,
not hard to change.

4. Use hotplug
=> We already have hotplug on the ISO, we just need to install its init
script too (by default no initscripts are installed to the ISO itself)

I'd prefer this 'automagic' method. :)

The last two solutions do not work if the modules might be needed for
the cdrom; if the cdrom is on a scsi disk needing those drivers.

Correct, those should be built-in, IMO.

So, what should we do? Comments, suggestions?

So Far,
Karsten

- -sandalle

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Eric Sandall | Source Mage GNU/Linux Developer
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