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Re: [Xen-users] Xen 3.0.2 on AMD64 - and initrd fun :)

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Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Xen 3.0.2 on AMD64 - and initrd fun :)
From: Jacob S <stormspotter@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 11:04:10 -0500
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On Thu, 27 Apr 2006 16:38:07 +0100
Gavin Hamill <gdh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Mm, I have a big Quad-Opteron.. thing.. that I'm trying to get Xen
> onto. I've used the 3.0.2 binary-install mode, updated menu.lst as
> per the README, but I need an initrd which contains the HP cciss RAID
> driver, and no Xen initrd image was installed into /boot.
> 
> Now I notice 
> xen-3.0.2-2-install/install/lib/modules/2.6.16-xen/kernel/drivers 
> /block/cciss.ko
> 
> But I can't get this into an initrd; the Xen README suggests using 
> "mkinitrd -v -f --with=cciss" etc. but the version of mkinitrd in
> Debian does not support that syntax. Any ideas?  Where can I get that
> version of mkinitrd that does support "--with" syntax?

Try adding a line containing 'cciss' to /etc/mkinitrd/modules and then
run mkinitrd without the "--with=cciss" part. 

HTH,
Jacob
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