Manually Load Driver in initrd on SUSE

Manually Load Driver in initrd on SUSE Server

Release:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP2

Problem:

Need to manually add the hba card (fibre card) driver in initrd image

Solution:

1)      Load the required driver temporarily using the modprobe command

            # modprobe -v qla2xxx

2)      Check weather the driver module is loaded or not by using lsmod

           

                # lsmod | grep qla

3)      Add the new driver module entry in the kernel file

                # vi /etc/sysconfig/kernel

            INITRD_MODULES="ata_piix mptsas processor thermal fan jbd ext3 edd qla2xxx"

4)      Now recreate the initrd image using the below command.

                # mkinitrd -k /boot/vmlinux-2.6.16.60-0.21-smp.gz -i /boot/initrd-2.6.16.60-0.21-smp

5)      Reboot the server and check weather the driver is loaded or not.

           

                # init 6

       # lsmod | grep qla