mkinitrd fails

[Carl Brown]

I'm trying to compile a RH9 custom kernel for this all-SCSI system. 
For configuration, I started with:
/usr/src/linux-2.4.20-6/configs/kernel-2.4.20-i586.config

Now,

# make modules install

fails with:

sh -x ./ins 2.4.20-6custom bzImage /usr/src/linux-2.4.20-6/System.map ""
+ '[' -x /root/bin/installkernel ']'
+ '[' -x /sbin/installkernel ']'
+ exec /sbin/installkernel 2.4.20-6custom bzImage 
/usr/src/linux-2.4.20-6/System.map ''
No module aic7xxx found for kernel 2.4.20-6custom
mkinitrd failed
make[1]: *** [install] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.20-6/arch/i386/boot'
make: *** [install] Error 2

Relevant bit from my config:

#
# SCSI support
#
CONFIG_SCSI=y

#
# SCSI support type (disk, tape, CD-ROM)
#
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=y
CONFIG_SD_EXTRA_DEVS=40
# CONFIG_CHR_DEV_ST is not set
# CONFIG_CHR_DEV_OSST is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR_VENDOR=y
CONFIG_SR_EXTRA_DEVS=4
CONFIG_CHR_DEV_SG=m

#
# Some SCSI devices (e.g. CD jukebox) support multiple LUNs
#
# CONFIG_SCSI_DEBUG_QUEUES is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_MULTI_LUN is not set
CONFIG_SCSI_CONSTANTS=y
CONFIG_SCSI_LOGGING=y

#
# SCSI low-level drivers
#
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_3W__RAID is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_7000FASST is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_ACARD is not set
CONFIG_SCSI_AHA152X=m
# CONFIG_SCSI_AHA1542 is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_AHA1740 is not set
CONFIG_SCSI_AIC7XXX=m
CONFIG_AIC7XXX_CMDS_PER_DEVICE=253
CONFIG_AIC7XXX_RESET_DELAY_MS=15000
# CONFIG_AIC7XXX_PROBE_EISA_VL is not set
# CONFIG_AIC7XXX_BUILD_FIRMWARE is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_AIC79XX is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_AIC7XXX_OLD is not set
...

Main scsi card is an Adaptec 2940U2W which uses the AIC7XXX driver.
There is an old ISA 1520B in there too, that's why that is selected.

All I really need to do is to add HPFS support to the stock kernel, since 
Redhat dropped it from their stock kernel after RH7.1.

Note particularly the "CONFIG_SCSI_AIC7XXX=m" above.
Looks to me like it's set for a module. 
I also watched it compile the module with no errors.

What am I missing?

-Carl Brown



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Coda Installation

[Carl Brown]

Is coda a dead project?
Does anyone have instructions that _work_?
Does coda work?
The installation instructions in the docs are highly defective,
and were last modified three and a half years ago, according to the ftp 
server at CMU.

I dl'ed:

coda-doc-5.2.0-1.noarch.rpm  (which shows modified 03/12/99)
coda-debug-backup-5.3.19-1.i386.rpm
coda-debug-client-5.3.19-1.i386.rpm
coda-debug-server-5.3.19-1.i386.rpm
lwp-1.8-1.i386.rpm
rpc2-1.13-1.i386.rpm
rvm-1.6-1.i386.rpm

rvm and lwp installed, but rpc2 started the descent into the failed 
dependency quagmire with readline.so.3 and libncurses.so.4. It continues to 
refuse to install even after I symlinked those to the actual installed 
versions, .4.1 and .5.2 respectively, as installed on this RH 7.1 system. 
Further research showed that readline has been at 4.1 since at least RH 5.0, 
so I can't even dust off an old enough version to satisfy this antique 
requirement.

Should I just --nodeps them and go?
Or should I look for another network filesystem?

--CB



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