HP StorageWorks Q2300, Installation Manual

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Installing the Linux driver 26
4. Build the ramdisk image file:
• For a single-processor system, enter the following command, replacing
x.x.xx–x.x
with
your Linux version number:
/sbin/mkinitrd /boot/newinitrd-image x.x.xx-x.x
• For a multiprocessor system, enter the following command, replacing
x.x.xx–x.x
with
your Linux version number.
/sbin/mkinitrd /boot/newinitrd-image x.x.xx-x.xsmp
5. Configure the boot loader with the new ramdisk image:
a. Modify the
elilo.conf
file to load the new ramdisk image by changing the following
line:
initrd=/boot/initrd_file_name
For example:
initrd=/boot/newinitrd-image
b. Reboot the system.
c. Select the kernel with the new ramdisk image.
Loading and unloading the qla2300 driver manually
Before loading the driver manually, first build the driver from sources as described in ” Building a
uniprocessor version of the driver ” on page 22 or in ” Building a multiprocessor version of the
driver ” on page 22.
After manually loading the qla2300 driver, you can access the devices and unload the driver
manually without rebooting the system. The driver is also unloaded each time the system is
rebooted.
To load the qla2300 driver:
1. Manually install the driver binary:
a. Copy
qla2300.o
to the following directory:
/lib/modules/kernel_release_version/kernel/drivers/scsi
b. Update the dependency file.
Either run
depmod -a
or make sure that the following line is in the file
/lib/modules/kernel_release_version/modules.dep
:
/lib/modules/kernel_release_version/kernel/drivers/scsi/
qla2300.o:/lib/modules/kernel_release_version/kernel/drivers/scsi/scsi_m
od.o