Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 3199
aic7xxx recompile problem
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:37:50 EDT
Hi - I am using RedHat 6.0 on a Dell 4300/400 dual pentium II setup with raid 5 ... I needed to recompile the kernal because of the Tripp Unison UPS ... Powersmart software ... I am using SMP .... I tried using the aic7xxx that came with 6.0 ... had the same error ... so I upgaded to .16 version .... and still get the following error ... when I boot .... lib/aic7xxx.o unresolved symbol __global_sti I did solve a different problem by uploading the new AMI driver ... because the one that comes with 6.0 is bad .. - Joel ------- Additional Comments From 06/09/99 07:16 ------- Was the initrd image remade after the new kernel was compiled and installed and was lilo rerun after both the new kernel were installed and the new initrd image had been made. This sounds suspiciously like the module in the initrd image is out of date with respect to the kernel. ------- Email Received From "Joel Weinfeld" <joel@tekdata.com> 06/14/99 11:12 ------- ------- Email Received From "Joel Weinfeld" <joel@tekdata.com> 06/14/99 13:19 -------
Try disabling module versions in the kernel you are compiling, redo the kernel, modules, initrd, and lilo steps and then see if that makes a difference. ------- Email Received From "Joel Weinfeld" <joel@tekdata.com> 06/15/99 16:02 -------
When you remade the kernel it should have made both new AMI MegaRAID driver and aic7xxx driver modules. Those should have been both made without symbol versions and they should have both loaded fine. If there is a problem now with the megaraid driver, then it would lead me to suspect that the initrd is not getting remade properly (again). Keep in mind that if there is an initrd image already in existence, mkinitrd will not overwrite that image without the -f flag. I would suggest you use the -f -v flags to mkinitrd to verify that the new initrd is made properly and that you also make sure that the modules being placed on the new initrd image are from the fresh kernel/module compile and that none of them are "leftovers" so to speak. ------- Email Received From "Joel Weinfeld" <joel@tekdata.com> 06/25/99 11:36 ------- ------- Email Received From "Joel Weinfeld" <joel@tekdata.com> 06/25/99 15:27 -------