Thanks all, I'm still playing with it and will try all of your suggestions, then report back.
The thing that complicates this is that I'm trying all of this from the CentOS (minimal) installer environment loaded from a USB drive, rather than the actual OS installed on the disk, as I can't actually get the installed OS to load after installation (keeps falling into the emergency environment). I'm thinking a lot of my challenges may have something to do with that? However, I have had a lot of luck with loading other KMODs on other systems that have out-of-support hardware (megaraid_sas) in this fashion (loading the RPM from a DUD using the "inst.dd" kernel parameter). I'm not exactly sure how to use `yum` in the installer environment yet (looks like there is `anaconda-yum`, so I could possibly experiment with that). I'm doing another fresh install of CentOS (it takes a while) and then I'll try to `chroot` into that environment from the installer environment, and install the RPM with `yum`. If that doesn't work, I'll do a `yum upgrade` and try again. I don't know if that is really helpful or not, but I'm curious to see what happens. To shed a little light around my main goal is that I have a LOT of these systems with this chipset that I'm trying to get onto CentOS 7 using Foreman, so it is ultimately important for me to be able to get the CentOS installer environment to load the KMOD RPM via a DUD, which would ensure that the OS installs at a non-glacial pace and actually loads during boot :) Apologies if I'm making this overly complicated! Tristan On Tue, Jul 20, 2021 at 11:49 AM Manuel Wolfshant <wo...@nobugconsulting.ro> wrote: > On 7/20/21 6:34 PM, Trevor Hemsley wrote: > > On 20/07/2021 16:19, Tristan Evans wrote: > > [anaconda root@localhost ~]# uname -a > Linux unknown001a6443e48f.attlocal.net 3.10.0-1160.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon > Oct 19 16:18:59 UTC 2020 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > > > yum update > > Get yourself to the latest kernel, the one the kmod was built against. > > yum install kmod-sata_via-2.6-1.el7_9.elrepo.x86_64 > > Work any better now? > > Trevor > > > Thing is that I verified half a dozen of the failed dependencies ( > randomly picked from the list ) and all of them are provided by all the > kernels available in C7.9. > > And I am very puzzled by the presence of the folders > /usr/lib/modules/3.10.0-1160.el7.x86_64/extra/sata_via and > /usr/share/doc/kmod-sata_via-2.6 in the absence of the files that should > exist over there. Both these folders belong the ElRepo rpm ... which > allegedly was not installed. > > OTOH the package installed just fine on my fully updated C7.9 so there is > that. > > > wolfy > > > PS: Tristan, as a matter of habit, I suggest to use "yum install" rather > than "rpm -i". Saves time when the package you want to install needs others > as dependencies. > _______________________________________________ > elrepo mailing list > elrepo@lists.elrepo.org > http://lists.elrepo.org/mailman/listinfo/elrepo >
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