<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Module Installation</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="Linux Migration to Promise RAID Card HOWTO" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="Introduction" HREF="intro.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Linux Configuration" HREF="linuxconf.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="sect1" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >Linux Migration to Promise RAID Card HOWTO</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="intro.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="linuxconf.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="sect1" ><H1 CLASS="sect1" ><A NAME="modinstall" ></A >2. Module Installation</H1 ><DIV CLASS="sect2" ><H2 CLASS="sect2" ><A NAME="AEN62" ></A >2.1. What?</H2 ><P > You will need an existing Red Hat Linux Install, and you will need to obtain the correct driver from the <A HREF="http://www.promise.com/support/download/download_eng.asp" TARGET="_top" >Promise website</A >. </P ><P > Choose your card type, and then choose <EM >FastTrak Family Red Hat Linux Driver Uniprocessor</EM >. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="sect2" ><H2 CLASS="sect2" ><A NAME="AEN68" ></A >2.2. How?</H2 ><P > Put the RAID Card into the computer, but leave the hard drive(s) on the motherboard. Boot up into Linux. Login as root. You should have the tar file from the Promise site, if not, see "What?" section above. </P ><DIV CLASS="sect3" ><H3 CLASS="sect3" ><A NAME="AEN71" ></A >2.2.1. Extracting the module</H3 ><P ></P ><P ></P ><UL ><LI ><P > Put the tar file into <TT CLASS="filename" >/tmp</TT >. </P ></LI ><LI ><P >Issue this command: <B CLASS="command" >tar vxf ftrhup_120b9.tar</B > </P ></LI ><LI ><P >Now we have access to the <TT CLASS="filename" >modules.cgz</TT > file. Issue the following: </P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" WIDTH="100%" ><TR ><TD ><FONT COLOR="#000000" ><PRE CLASS="screen" > # gzip -dc modules.cgz > modules.cpio # cpio -idumv < modules.cpio </PRE ></FONT ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P > A few directories will be created, so move to the correct directory, depending on your kernel version. You can get your kernel version, by issuing: <B CLASS="command" >uname -r</B > </P ></LI ><LI ><P > You will see the <TT CLASS="filename" >ft.o</TT > file. Copy this file to the <TT CLASS="filename" >/lib/modules/kernel-version/kernel/drivers/scsi</TT > directory. </P ></LI ></UL ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="sect3" ><H3 CLASS="sect3" ><A NAME="AEN91" ></A >2.2.2. Creating the Initial RAM Disk</H3 ><P > The Fasttrak module, ft, needs scsi_mod. To use the card as a RAID Card, you will also need sd_mod. </P ><P > To boot off the card, we will need to create a ramdisk, with the required modules, so that linux can see the hard drive(s). </P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" WIDTH="100%" ><TR ><TD ><FONT COLOR="#000000" ><PRE CLASS="screen" ># /sbin/mkinitrd --preload scsi_mod --preload sd_mod --with ft initrd-kernel-version.img kernel-version</PRE ></FONT ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P > If your kernel version is <STRONG >2.4.2-2</STRONG >, you would issue the command: </P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" WIDTH="100%" ><TR ><TD ><FONT COLOR="#000000" ><PRE CLASS="screen" ># /sbin/mkinitrd --preload scsi_mod --preload sd_mod --with ft initrd-2.4.2-2.img 2.4.2-2</PRE ></FONT ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P > Now move the newly created ramdisk image to <TT CLASS="filename" >/boot</TT >. Its time to edit <TT CLASS="filename" >lilo.conf</TT >. </P ><P > Before we edit <TT CLASS="filename" >lilo.conf</TT >, its best to make a floppy boot disk with the ft module included. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="sect3" ><H3 CLASS="sect3" ><A NAME="AEN104" ></A >2.2.3. Creating the Boot Disk</H3 ><P > This is very important, as something may go terribly wrong. If LILO stops working, then we just put the disk in and fix the problem. You will need the mkbootdisk program. </P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" WIDTH="100%" ><TR ><TD ><FONT COLOR="#000000" ><PRE CLASS="screen" ># /sbin/mkbootdisk --device /dev/df0 --mkinitrdargs '--preload scsi_mid --preload sd_mod --with ft' kernel-version</PRE ></FONT ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P > If your kernel version is <STRONG >2.4.2-2</STRONG >, then issue the following </P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" WIDTH="100%" ><TR ><TD ><FONT COLOR="#000000" ><PRE CLASS="screen" ># /sbin/mkbootdisk --device /dev/df0 --mkinitrdargs '--preload scsi_mid --preload sd_mod --with ft' 2.4.2-2</PRE ></FONT ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="intro.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="linuxconf.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Introduction</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Linux Configuration</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >