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A6826A PCI-X host bus adapter for Itanium Linux systems installation guide 19
4. Build the ramdisk image file:
• For a single-processor system, enter the following commands, 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 commands, 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. 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 32 or in ”Building a multiprocessor version of the
driver” on page 33.
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.
You can 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
_mod.o
c. Enter the following command to load the driver:
# modprobe qla2300
d. Under the directory that contains the qla2300.o file, you can also enter the following
command:
# insmod qla2300.o
NOTE: HP recommends loading the driver using the modprobe command so that any driver
parameter value specified in the /etc/modprobe.conf file takes effect.