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#1 (**permalink**) 01-19-2008, 06:13 AM

Hello,

I have installed Fedora Core 6 without problems using a driver disk
for my HighPoint RocketRAID 2300 controller.

Now I want to update all my packages which would include the kernel. I
suppose that my system wouldn't boot anymore if I'd do so because of
the missing drivers for the RAID controller. So how to update the
kernel package and adding the driver disk to it? Is there an easy way
to run the update?

Greetings,
Glenn

#2 (**permalink**) 01-19-2008, 06:13 AM

Glenn Kusardi wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have installed Fedora Core 6 without problems using a driver disk
> for my HighPoint RocketRAID 2300 controller.
>
> Now I want to update all my packages which would include the kernel. I
> suppose that my system wouldn't boot anymore if I'd do so because of
> the missing drivers for the RAID controller. So how to update the
> kernel package and adding the driver disk to it? Is there an easy way
> to run the update?

Did not yum work?

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#3 (**permalink**) 01-19-2008, 06:13 AM

On 27 Jun., 22:54, Matt Giwer <jul...@tampabay.REMover.rr.com> wrote:

> > I have installed Fedora Core 6 without problems using a driver disk
> > for my HighPoint RocketRAID 2300 controller.
> > Now I want to update all my packages which would include the kernel. I
> Did not yum work?

It is working, but when I do that, Linux isn't booting anymore because
of the missing RAID controller driver. The new kernel isn't capable to
access the RAID but I do have the necessary driver. I just want to get
the new kernel working with them :-).

#4 (**permalink**) 01-19-2008, 06:13 AM

On 28 Jun, 08:39, Glenn Kusardi <goo...@kusardi.de> wrote:
> On 27 Jun., 22:54, Matt Giwer <jul...@tampabay.REMover.rr.com> wrote:
>
> > > I have installed Fedora Core 6 without problems using a driver disk
> > > for my HighPoint RocketRAID 2300 controller.
> > > Now I want to update all my packages which would include the kernel. I
> > Did not yum work?
>
> It is working, but when I do that, Linux isn't booting anymore because
> of the missing RAID controller driver. The new kernel isn't capable to
> access the RAID but I do have the necessary driver. I just want to get
> the new kernel working with them :-).

Heh. Yeah, this is why I try to avoid needing non-standard kernels to
boot with. The usual technique is to boot with the kernel and drivers
that work, and review the installer for the add-on kernel drivers to
see how to add it or compile it in for the new kernel, then run
"mkinitrd" to add the new drivers to the /boot/initrd-* file as
necessary.

Unfortunately, a lot of driver installers suck really hard. And
HighPoint seems to be one of the bad ones, I can say from previous
experience. Does the development or testing kernel for Fedora Core 7
work?

#5 (**permalink**) 01-19-2008, 06:13 AM

On 28 Jun., 10:27, Nico <nka...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Heh. Yeah, this is why I try to avoid needing non-standard kernels to
> boot with. The usual technique is to boot with the kernel and drivers
> that work, and review the installer for the add-on kernel drivers to
> see how to add it or compile it in for the new kernel, then run
> "mkinitrd" to add the new drivers to the /boot/initrd-* file as
> necessary.

This is the way I have done it now. Getting the new kernel package,
booting with the old one and then compiling the driver against the new
kernel. A more automatic way would be great, but this method is
working at least.

Compiling and installing the HighPoint source driver was easy. It was
just a "make KERNELDIR=/path/to/new/kernel/build" and "make install
KERNELDIR=/path/to/new/kernel/build".

mkinitrd is automatically called from "make install" so this is very
easy.

> experience. Does the development or testing kernel for Fedora Core 7
> work?

I didn't made any experiences with Fedora 7 yet.

Glenn

#6 (**permalink**) 01-19-2008, 06:13 AM

Glenn Kusardi wrote:
> On 27 Jun., 22:54, Matt Giwer <jul...@tampabay.REMover.rr.com> wrote:
>
>>> I have installed Fedora Core 6 without problems using a driver disk
>>> for my HighPoint RocketRAID 2300 controller.
>>> Now I want to update all my packages which would include the kernel. I
>> Did not yum work?
>
> It is working, but when I do that, Linux isn't booting anymore because
> of the missing RAID controller driver. The new kernel isn't capable to
> access the RAID but I do have the necessary driver. I just want to get
> the new kernel working with them :-).
>
Why not put /boot on a non-raid drive, and everything else on the RAID? This
might be the simplest solution. A small drive would be enough (25 megabytes,
if you can get one that small). And you could use the rest of the space for
low priority stuff if you wanted to.

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#7 (**permalink**) 01-19-2008, 06:13 AM

On 28 Jun, 10:33, Glenn Kusardi <goo...@kusardi.de> wrote:

> This is the way I have done it now. Getting the new kernel package,
> booting with the old one and then compiling the driver against the new
> kernel. A more automatic way would be great, but this method is
> working at least.
>
> Compiling and installing the HighPoint source driver was easy. It was
> just a "make KERNELDIR=/path/to/new/kernel/build" and "make install
> KERNELDIR=/path/to/new/kernel/build".

Yeah, a good installer will detect other kernels present and install
drivers for those as well. But it''s awkward to do.

>
> mkinitrd is automatically called from "make install" so this is very
> easy.
>
> > experience. Does the development or testing kernel for Fedora Core 7
> > work?
>
> I didn't made any experiences with Fedora 7 yet.

It's only in testing mode right now, it's not quite released.

#8 (**permalink**) 01-19-2008, 06:13 AM

On 28 Jun, 13:03, Jean-David Beyer <jeandav...@verizon.net> wrote:

> Why not put /boot on a non-raid drive, and everything else on the RAID? This
> might be the simplest solution. A small drive would be enough (25 megabytes,
> if you can get one that small). And you could use the rest of the space for
> low priority stuff if you wanted to.

This can be..... fraught. For example, many el cheapo IDE controllers,
and drivers with them, re-order the devices at odd moments. The
published add-on drivers for Promise controllers, for years, had a
hard-coded setting of switching the /dev/hde and /dev/hdf drives to
look like /dev/hda and /dev/hdb, to try and force the Promise managed
drives to be seen first.

Ye ghods, those things were *awful*. It's why I try to get 3Ware and
Adaptec controllers these days: more robust, more supported, and more
consistent in their quality and behavior.

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