Hello!

I have some issues. I am running Linux, I have an Adaptec 1430SA RAID
controller. Installation is easy, w/ "linux dd" and provide the driver
disk. The problems arises when I want to update the kernel, the new
kernel does not (of course) contain the RAID driver, hence the OS will
not find the logical volume on the RAID. Adaptec is currently
providing a rpm-file with the driver.

My question: How to I install/merge the rpm with the new kernel
(before reboot)?

Thanks,

Ronny Mandal

Ronny Mandal wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I have some issues. I am running Linux, I have an Adaptec 1430SA RAID
> controller. Installation is easy, w/ "linux dd" and provide the driver
> disk. The problems arises when I want to update the kernel, the new
> kernel does not (of course) contain the RAID driver, hence the OS will
> not find the logical volume on the RAID. Adaptec is currently
> providing a rpm-file with the driver.

The RPM is made for a specific kernel, so you would need to download one
that is for the kernel you update to.

Install first the kernel rpm

rpm -ivh kernel-2.6.23-1.i386.rpm

then install the RPM with the driver

rpm -ivh adaptec-driver-2.6.23.i386.rpm

don't use the -Uvh option for RPM, as it would remove the older version.


If you don't get RPMs for you kernel, then get the source rpm of the
driver from adaptec (.src.rpm instead of i386.rpm), and see to install
the kernel source for the kernel you want to update to (see at
fedora.redhat.com for how to), then install the source RPM (this you
need only do once), you will find the source in /usr/src/redhat/SOURCE,
unpack the tarball and read the instruction how to compile the driver.

You would need to compile driver each time you upgrade the kernel.


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//Aho