DKMS (megaraid_sas) and Redhat ES 4

[Charles_Rose at Dell.com]

Patrick,

You will have to compile the megaraid_sas module for the 2.6.9-67.ELsmp
kernel. 

Ensure that you have the 2.6.9-67.ELsmp-devel rpm package and gcc
installed before you do this.

1. Boot the machine with the kernel that works.
2. get the version of the megaraid_sas driver that you have installed on
your box:
   # dkms status -m megaraid_sas
3. build the megaraid_sas driver module for the new kernel that you want
to boot.
   # dkms build -m megaraid_sas -v <version> -k 2.6.9-67-ELsmp
4. if the step above completed successfully, install the driver for the
new kernel
   # dkms install -m megaraid_sas -v <version> -k 2.6.9-67-ELsmp

What is your boot storage controller?

Thanks,
Charles
Linux Engineering
http://linux.dell.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dkms-devel-bounces at dell.com [mailto:dkms-devel-bounces at dell.com]
On Behalf Of Patrick Steiner
> Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 1:50 PM
> To: dkms-devel-Lists
> Subject: DKMS (megaraid_sas) and Redhat ES 4
> 
> hi,
> i have updated some of our dell poweredge 2950 and poweredge 1950 to
> 2.6.9-67.ELsmp. After this i got a kernel panic after boot (no lvm
> found) switching back to 2.6.9-55.0.12.ELsmp helps. So i looked at the
> to kernel packages an found, that the megaraid_sas kernel module dont
> get loaded with the new kernel. this should be done by the dkms or?
any
> ideas who i can fix this? i use redhat enterprise 4 on this servers.
> 
> regards,
>  patrick
> 
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