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
