NOVELL FORUMS - SLES: Hardware http://forums.novell.com/ en Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:39:52 GMT vBulletin 60 http://forums.novell.com/images/ca_serenity/misc/rss.jpg NOVELL FORUMS - SLES: Hardware http://forums.novell.com/ Build Nex bnx2x driver to use in SLES 10 SP2 initrd for PXE http://forums.novell.com/novell-product-support-forums/suse-linux-enterprise-server-sles/sles-hardware/393331-build-nex-bnx2x-driver-use-sles-10-sp2-initrd-pxe.html Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:56:35 GMT First I built a SLES 10 SP2 64 bit system with everything installed. I used the new system to build a new bnx2x driver with driver source package. ... First I built a SLES 10 SP2 64 bit system with everything installed.
I used the new system to build a new bnx2x driver with driver source package.

Server with SLES 10 SP2 64 bit installed
# rpm -ivh netxtreme2-5.0.24-1.src.rpm
# cd /usr/src/packages/SPECS
# rpmbuild -bb netxtreme2.spce
# cd /usr/src/packages/BUILD/netxtreme2-5.0.24/bnx2x/src/

copied bnx2x.ko to PXE server to build the initrd

# mkdir /tmp/initrd
# cd /tmp/initrd

copied bnx2x.ko into /tmp/initrd

# cp /tftpboot/SLES-10-SP2-64/boot/x86_64/loader/initrd .
# mkdir /tmp/initrd/wd
# cp initrd wd/initrd.gz
# cd wd
# gzip -d inittrd.gz
# cpio -ivdum initrd
# rm initrd
# cp /tmp/initrd/bnx2x.ko modules/.

Added in bnx2x vendor ID information into modules.alias and modules.pcimap

# find . | cpio -o -H newc > ../initrd.cpio
# cd ..
# gzip --best initrd.cpio
# cp initrd.cpio.gz /tftpboot/SLES-10-SP2-64/boot/x86_64/loader/initrd

When I now PXE to try an install, the PXE client fails, on screen <alt> <f3> the error states "insmod: error inserting '/modules/bnx2x.ko': -1 Invalid module format". On screen <alt> <f4> it states "bnx2x: disagrees about verson of symbol struct_module". When I try to manually load the bnx2x, I get an error saying that ir failed to load module "bnx2x".

When I run this:
# file bnx2x.ko
# bnx2x.ko: ELF 64-bit LSB relocatable, AMD x86_64, version 1 (SSYV), not stripped ]]> SLES: Hardware spanky_partain http://forums.novell.com/novell-product-support-forums/suse-linux-enterprise-server-sles/sles-hardware/393331-build-nex-bnx2x-driver-use-sles-10-sp2-initrd-pxe.html