<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Troubleshooting</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="Monitoring the Array" HREF="x168.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="x168.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" > </TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="sect1" ><H1 CLASS="sect1" ><A NAME="AEN175" ></A >6. Troubleshooting</H1 ><P > You may get a kernel mismatch error message. This means that you don't have the correct version module for use with your kernel. If you cannot get the correct module version for use with your kernel, choose the closest one, and follow these steps; </P ><P > This may not work in some instances, so remember to have your boot disk handy. </P ><P > <TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" WIDTH="100%" ><TR ><TD ><FONT COLOR="#000000" ><PRE CLASS="screen" > # cd /boot # cat initrd-2.4.2-2.img |gunzip > /tmp/myimage # mkdir /mnt/tmp # mount /tmp/myimage /mnt/tmp -t ext2 -o loop=/dev/loop3 # cd /mnt/tmp # vi linuxrc </PRE ></FONT ></TD ></TR ></TABLE > </P ><P > Now modify 'insmod ft' to 'insmod -f ft'. </P ><P > This will force the sytem to load the module. Save the file, and exit from vi (or emacs :)) </P ><P > <TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" WIDTH="100%" ><TR ><TD ><FONT COLOR="#000000" ><PRE CLASS="screen" > # umount /mnt/tmp # gzip /tmp/myimage # cp myimage.gz /boot/initrd-2.4.2-2.img </PRE ></FONT ></TD ></TR ></TABLE > </P ><P > You will obviously have to use the correct filename for your initrd file. I am using 2.4.2-2 as example. </P ><P > Now, reboot, and all should be well. </P ></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="x168.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" > </TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Monitoring the Array</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" > </TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >