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Old 11-12-2006, 05:45 PM   #1
alfista
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Registered: Oct 2006
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Problems With mkinitrd compiling 3w-9xxx


Hi All,

I'm trying to custom compile a new 3ware driver for my 9500sx SATA RAID card. I followed their instructions which are either not very accurate or out of whack relative to my distribution (in either case, they're not very well written).

http://www.3ware.com/kb/article.aspx?id=12690

I'm running trustix version 3.0 with the intention of this box being a vmware server. I'm getting the following output when making the ramdisk to boot with at the end:


Code:
root@vmware ~/driver# /usr/sbin/mkinitrd -v -o /boot/initrd-2.6.17.14-1trsmp initrd-2.6.17.14-1trsmp
Creating directories
- Creating /bin
- Creating /dev/evms
- Creating /etc/mkinitrd
- Creating /lib/modules/initrd-2.6.17.14-1trsmp
- Creating /usr/lib/evms/2.5.2
- Creating /proc
- Creating /sys
- Creating /var/lock
- Creating /var/log
- Creating /sysroot
Copying files
- Copying: /dev/tty
- Copying: /dev/console
- Copying: /etc/fstab
- Copying: /dev/evms/lvm2/vg1/lv1
- Copying: /dev/evms/lvm2/vg1/lv3
- Copying: /dev/evms/lvm2/vg1/lv4
- Copying: /dev/sda1
Copying binaries
- Copying: /bin/dash
- Copying: /bin/cat
- Copying: /bin/echo
- Copying: /usr/bin/expr
- Copying: /bin/grep
- Copying: /bin/mount
- Copying: /bin/umount
- Copying: /usr/sbin/evms_activate
- Copying: /sbin/pivot_root
- Copying: /sbin/modprobe
- Copying: /bin/grep
Checking binary dependencies
- Copying: /lib/libc.so.6
- Copying: /lib/tls/libc.so.6
- Copying: /lib/ld-linux.so.2
- Copying: /lib/libblkid.so.1
- Copying: /lib/libuuid.so.1
- Copying: /usr/lib/libevms-2.5.so.0
- Copying: /lib/libpthread.so.0
- Copying: /lib/tls/libpthread.so.0
- Copying: /lib/libdl.so.2
Finalizing image preparation
Copying in evms plugins
Removing evms plugins that are not needed for booting
Copying in some special device nodes
Copying in required kernel modules
- shpchp
find: /lib/modules/initrd-2.6.17.14-1trsmp: No such file or directory
- ide-core
find: /lib/modules/initrd-2.6.17.14-1trsmp: No such file or directory
- generic
find: /lib/modules/initrd-2.6.17.14-1trsmp: No such file or directory
- i2c-core
find: /lib/modules/initrd-2.6.17.14-1trsmp: No such file or directory
- i2c-amd8111
find: /lib/modules/initrd-2.6.17.14-1trsmp: No such file or directory
- i2c-amd756
find: /lib/modules/initrd-2.6.17.14-1trsmp: No such file or directory
- scsi_mod
find: /lib/modules/initrd-2.6.17.14-1trsmp: No such file or directory
- scsi_transport_spi
find: /lib/modules/initrd-2.6.17.14-1trsmp: No such file or directory
- 3w-9xxx
find: /lib/modules/initrd-2.6.17.14-1trsmp: No such file or directory
- sd_mod
find: /lib/modules/initrd-2.6.17.14-1trsmp: No such file or directory
- usbcore
find: /lib/modules/initrd-2.6.17.14-1trsmp: No such file or directory
- ohci-hcd
find: /lib/modules/initrd-2.6.17.14-1trsmp: No such file or directory
- libusual
find: /lib/modules/initrd-2.6.17.14-1trsmp: No such file or directory
- usb-storage
find: /lib/modules/initrd-2.6.17.14-1trsmp: No such file or directory
- pcspkr
find: /lib/modules/initrd-2.6.17.14-1trsmp: No such file or directory
- hw_random
find: /lib/modules/initrd-2.6.17.14-1trsmp: No such file or directory
- amd74xx
find: /lib/modules/initrd-2.6.17.14-1trsmp: No such file or directory
- cdrom
find: /lib/modules/initrd-2.6.17.14-1trsmp: No such file or directory
- sr_mod
find: /lib/modules/initrd-2.6.17.14-1trsmp: No such file or directory
- ide-cd
find: /lib/modules/initrd-2.6.17.14-1trsmp: No such file or directory
- isofs
find: /lib/modules/initrd-2.6.17.14-1trsmp: No such file or directory
- dm-mod
find: /lib/modules/initrd-2.6.17.14-1trsmp: No such file or directory
- ipv6
find: /lib/modules/initrd-2.6.17.14-1trsmp: No such file or directory
- xfs
find: /lib/modules/initrd-2.6.17.14-1trsmp: No such file or directory
Copying in kernel module support files
cp: cannot stat `/lib/modules/initrd-2.6.17.14-1trsmp/modules.*': No such file or directory
I'm afraid to reboot based on the errors I'm getting in the verbose output, but I've never done this before. Any tips? Am I OK?

Thanks!

Jason
 
Old 11-12-2006, 05:55 PM   #2
alfista
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Registered: Oct 2006
Posts: 24

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skip that...my brain was apparently compiled with the idiot option or I'm currently infected with the beer virus. I figured out the proper parameters to pass and I appear to be in better shape.
 
  


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