If you are booting off of the SCSI, then you don't need mkinitrd. But if
you do in fact need mkinitrd for some reason, you run
mkinitrd --omit-scsi-modules
Which will cause it not to look for your aic7xxx.o and just create the
initrd file.
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of shane
> Sent: Friday, October 06, 2000 8:27 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Help! Redhat7: 2.2.17 no module AIC7XXX found error
>
>
> I'm trying to upgrade a stock redhat7 machine to 2.2.17:
> Here's exactly what I've done.
>
> downloaded 2.2.17, and the idepatch.
> cd /usr/src/linux
> tar -czvf ~/oldkernelsourcebackup.tgz linux
> rm -fR linux 2.2.16*
> tar -xzvf ~/linux.2.2.17.tgz
> cd linux
> patch -p1 < ~/idepatch
> edited Makefile to change:
>
> CC=kgcc
> #HOSTCC =gcc
> HOSTCC =kgcc
> #CC =$(CROSS_COMPILE)cc -D__KERNEL__ -I$(HPATH)
> CC =$(CROSS_COMPILE)kgcc -D__KERNEL__ -I$(HPATH)
>
> make mrproper
> make clean
> make menuconfig
> make dep
> make clean
> make bzImage
> make modules
> make modules_install
>
> cd /boot
> cp /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.17
> cp /usr/src/linux/System.map /boot/System.map-2.2.17
> rm -f /boot/initrd-2.2.17.img
> /sbin/mkinitrd initrd-2.2.17.img 2.2.17
>
> mkinitrd dies here with
>
> "No module aic7xxx found for kernel 2.2.17"
>
> I had specified that aic7xxx be compiled directly into it:
>
> CONFIG_SCSI_AHA152X=y
> CONFIG_SCSI_AHA1542=y
> CONFIG_SCSI_AHA1740=y
> CONFIG_SCSI_AIC7XXX=y
> CONFIG_AIC7XXX_TCQ_ON_BY_DEFAULT=y
> CONFIG_AIC7XXX_CMDS_PER_DEVICE=8
> CONFIG_AIC7XXX_PROC_STATS=y
> CONFIG_AIC7XXX_RESET_DELAY=5
>
> Ok, so I start over, specifying that it's compiled as a module.
> (I really don't want this, /dev/sda1 is off the scsi card, but
> I'll try anything at this point).
>
> mkinitrd again dies here with
>
> "No module aic7xxx found for kernel 2.2.17"
>
> I've tried doing the make modules && make modules_install *both*
> after the make bzImage and immediately before
>
> /sbin/mkinitrd initrd-2.2.17.img 2.2.17
>
> thinking that maybe I had to place the .img and system.map files
> there while the modules were installed in /lib/modules.
>
> Doing this didn't help - mkinitrd still complained.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
>
>
>
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