Re: [CentOS] HP ML110 G6: how to update kernel with HP hpahcisr raid driver installed

2010-10-01 Thread Scott Silva
on 9-30-2010 8:35 AM Dario Lesca spake the following:
 Il giorno gio, 30/09/2010 alle 07.54 -0400, mark ha scritto:
 Dario Lesca wrote:
 snip
 ... start with linux dd and, at the end of setup, install the

 What? What are you saying you did with the dd command?
 At dvd boot prompt, I have add 'dd' option an I have load hp driver.
 
 Where'd you get the original?
 On the hp site
 
 Does installation of it build the driver, the way, for example, I have
 to rebuild a years-old driver for my Nvidia card at work, every time I
 update the kernel?
 HP not release the source of driver.
 
 Now I have reinstall and solved this issue
 adding a exclude=kernel* into /etc/yum.conf
 
 Thank to all.
 
That doesn't really solve the issue, it only stops you from getting
important kernel updates.

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Re: [CentOS] HP ML110 G6: how to update kernel with HP hpahcisr raid driver installed

2010-10-01 Thread Joseph L. Casale
That doesn't really solve the issue, it only stops you from getting
important kernel updates.

An unfortunate way of life if you insist on using HP's modules. They do
their own QA testing and it takes a moons age. I have never had a need
to use the latest cciss for example versus the shipped module's but I guess
if you want software raid on that little server you have to.

AFAIK, turning off raid and using ahci then using mdraid (as I do on my ML110 
G6's)
makes much more sense is way easier longterm.
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Re: [CentOS] HP ML110 G6: how to update kernel with HP hpahcisr raid driver installed

2010-10-01 Thread Tru Huynh
On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 10:24:43AM -0700, Scott Silva wrote:
 on 9-30-2010 8:35 AM Dario Lesca spake the following:
  Il giorno gio, 30/09/2010 alle 07.54 -0400, mark ha scritto:
  Dario Lesca wrote:
  snip
...
  Now I have reinstall and solved this issue
  adding a exclude=kernel* into /etc/yum.conf
  
  Thank to all.
  
 That doesn't really solve the issue, it only stops you from getting
 important kernel updates.

and you really should upgrade your kernel if you have local users
on your server...

http://h2.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c01732801
seems fun too

if you are lucky you could just copy the hpahcisr.ko file and into 
/lib/modules/`uname -r`/extra and let kernel upgrade do the weak update magic.

OTOH, if the order of kernel module is important as suggested above, you need 
to 
do it manually see mkinird man pages.

Tru

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Re: [CentOS] HP ML110 G6: how to update kernel with HP hpahcisr raid driver installed

2010-09-30 Thread John Doe
From: Dario Lesca d.le...@solinos.it

 I have install Centos 5.5 on HP ProLiant ML110 G6
 ...  start with linux dd and, at the end of setup, 
 install the hpahcisr into  kernel 2.6.18-194.el5PAE
 But after reboot if I run a yum update and  reboot, the new kernel not
 contain the driver hpahcisr for new kernel and I  get a kernel panic. 
 The question is:
 How to update to last kernel  without lost the proprietary driver?
 It's possible?
 Where is the  new driver for new kernel?

The README files says:

The install script will install the hpahcisr loadable
object modules into the /lib/modules directory for each kernel
for which a driver object module is present in this package and
exists on the system.  Then it will make a new initrd 
(initial RAM disk) image for the running kernel, if a driver for
the running kernel was installed.  Then, it will update the LILO
or GRUB configuration, as directed, adding a new entry to use the
new initrd image.  If there were already hpahcisr loadable
object modules present in the kernel libraries, these will be backed
up under /use/src/HP/driver_backup.

driver object module is present in this package =
$ find . | grep ko | awk -F/ ' { print $4 } ' | sort
...
2.6.18-194.el5
2.6.18-194.el5PAE
2.6.18-194.el5xen
...

Maybe run once more the install script but, if your kernel version is not 
listed, I do not know if it will help...
Or, maybe you could copy the module in /lib/modules/... and make the initrd by 
hand and hope it works...
Or just disable the fake hardware RAID and use software RAID (I am afraid of 
cheap raid)...

JD


  
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Re: [CentOS] HP ML110 G6: how to update kernel with HP hpahcisr raid driver installed

2010-09-30 Thread mark
Dario Lesca wrote:
snip
 ... start with linux dd and, at the end of setup, install the

What? What are you saying you did with the dd command?

 hpahcisr into kernel 2.6.18-194.el5PAE
 
 But after reboot if I run a yum update and reboot, the new kernel
 not contain the driver hpahcisr for new kernel and I get a kernel
 panic.

Of course not. You installed a proprietary driver, that is *not* part of 
the new kernel. Why would you think it should magically be part of the 
new kernel? Look at /boot, and you'll see more than one kernel file. The 
configuration files for *one* kernel make it  aware of your driver; the 
new one has no clue, *and* some of the shared libraries may/will not 
match, so of course you have to reinstall.
 
 The question is:
 
 How to update to last kernel without lost the proprietary driver?
 
 It's possible?
 
 Where is the new driver for new kernel?

Where'd you get the original? Does installation of it build the driver, 
the way, for example, I have to rebuild a years-old driver for my Nvidia 
card at work, every time I update the kernel?

mark

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Re: [CentOS] HP ML110 G6: how to update kernel with HP hpahcisr raid driver installed

2010-09-30 Thread Dario Lesca
Il giorno gio, 30/09/2010 alle 07.54 -0400, mark ha scritto:
 Dario Lesca wrote:
 snip
  ... start with linux dd and, at the end of setup, install the
 
 What? What are you saying you did with the dd command?
At dvd boot prompt, I have add 'dd' option an I have load hp driver.

 Where'd you get the original?
On the hp site

 Does installation of it build the driver, the way, for example, I have
 to rebuild a years-old driver for my Nvidia card at work, every time I
 update the kernel?
HP not release the source of driver.

Now I have reinstall and solved this issue
adding a exclude=kernel* into /etc/yum.conf

Thank to all.

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