[WBEL-users] RHEL Driver Disks

[Johnny Hughes]

On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 06:04 -0400, Jim Wildman wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, Timefactor wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> >         I'm just wondering if anyone has tried to use RHEL Driver disks with WhiteBox?
> > 
> >         In order to install WhiteBox I require a special SATA driver for my Hard Drive to be detected. Unfortunately the only driver available at this time was made for RHEL (Dell System) and the installation reads the disk, then reads the module then says there's no suitable module for the distro.
> > 
> 
> Modules are kernel specific.  From the command line you can force one to
> load, but I don't know of any way to do that during the install.
During an install (depending on haw far along you are), you can maybe to
get a root terminal by pressing Alt-F2, where you can use modprobe ...
you may also be able to recompile the driver for your kernel.
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Johnny Hughes
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