Installing debian with a propritary raid driver
Hi,
I'm installing debian on a server with dual xeon processors and a Promise
FastTrak 2000TX IDE RAID controller.
Promise doesn't offer the details about the board, thus they offer
pre-compiled (closed source) RedHat drivers for their cards.
So I downloaded it, extracted it, and put the module (FastTrak.o) on a disk
within the /boot-directory and managed to use the debian installer and
everything worked.
Now, the bf2.4 kernel doesn't support SMP, and also I have to compile drivers
for my intel gigabit ethernet NIC, but where do I go from here?
I installed initrd-tools, compiled the kernel sources with support for initrd
and cramfs and added "FastTrak" to /etc/mkinitrd/modules.
Now I created the ramdisk with;
% mkinitrd -o xxx /lib/modules/2.4-my-custom-version
If I reboot with this kernel and initrd it says it doesn't find "FastTrak" (I
have verified it to be available on the ramdisk in
/lib/modules/2.4-my-custom-version/kernel/drivers/scsi/)
I've also tried to mount the initrd.debinstall file, but it isn't cramfs...
Now my question is how can I create a ramdisk like the one created during
install?
-janvidar-
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Best regards
Jan Vidar Krey
Sofware developer / Unix admin
Open Human Digital AS (OHD)
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E-Mail: jvk@ohd.no
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