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did not mean to hijack the thread. I give up until tom or some kind soul can give me the patched kernel this is on hold. I have had no luck whats so ever with patching the kernel even with a dev machine.
Any takers for patching it for me?
thanks
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Can i get someone to add this two drivers to the kernel and send it to me. I have not had any luck getting this done. Really starting to run out of patience on this. If i can not get these drivers installed there is not any sense in playing with this anymore.
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Your stated desires have been inconsistent. Do you want to boot a complete development system from the USB, or do you want to boot from hard drive and compile a new kernel back to the USB?
Don't be offended but this is not something that you can just "follow" with a set of preprinted steps. Configuring and building a linux kernel is not a trivial task.... there are too many variables involved for someone else to do it for you in a forum post.
Not offended at all appreciate the help
What i would like to do is be able to do it all on the usb drive. It is a 4 gig stick, I really only need to add 2 drivers for the rocket raid cards i have. Once that is setup I am all set. I am very happy with Unraid it just does not support my cards out of the box. -
In that case, just boot the stick, decompress the bzroot, use installpkg to install the sources and development kit packages (gcc and libs), then recompress the file system back to the initramfs on the flash. They you can boot from the flash and build a new kernel and initramfs.
But that is a very inefficient way to do it.
I just keep a separate source directory on my regular linux development box for the unRAID kernel and a copy of the unRAID initramfs decompressed. I compile on my regular development box, and a script copies all the files to the uncompressed initramfs directory, then compresses it back to the USB stick and copies the new custom kernel to the USB stick. It is a little ugly, but:
make modules_install mount /dev/hda4 /mnt/uraid mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb rm /mnt/uraid/lib/modules/2.6.22.5/* rm /mnt/uraid/lib/modules/2.6.22.5/kernel/* -r cp /lib/modules/2.6.22.5/* /mnt/uraid/lib/modules/2.6.22.5 cp /lib/modules/2.6.22.5/kernel/* /mnt/uraid/lib/modules/2.6.22.5/kernel -r cd /mnt/uraid find . | cpio -o -H newc | gzip > /mnt/usb/custom.gz cp /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage /mnt/usb/vmcustom sync
To be a total clueless wonder can you point me to links of what i need to install. to be able to do this on the usb. I followed the install instructions on the other thread I just cant figure out which version of gcc and what else i need to install..
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You don't just install Slackware..... you have to get the source for 2.6.22.5, get the GPL'd mods from the unRAID distro, build a custom kernel, decompress the initramfs, copy files to new locations, move some scripts and symlinks around, edit some scripts. It is a rather complex process. I got it working, but went back to booting off the USB stick. Now I build my custom kernel right to the USB stick.
That is my goal to boot off the stick and build a custom kernel there. I thought i have everything in place to do just that but I keep getting hit with snags. Mostly trying to get gcc on the stick. I have already set up a process to decompress the files to a temp location and put them back on the stick.
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You can install a development Slackware system to a HD, with the sources so you can compile your own kernel to use with unRAID, and that drive can be accessible from unRAID, house yor swap, etc., but not be part of the array. But you still have to have the USB for the license.
OK i installed slackware on a drive in the system but when i try to mount it i get invalid file system. What file system should i be using to for the slackware install so i can mount it in unraid?
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Thanks for the help. I am running it on a K8N Neo4. I have already gotten the bzoot file uncompressed and copied over into a temp directory. And I have gotten the temp file back on to the stick and running it with a few modifications. Just trying to add my raid cards 2320 and 2314 rocket raid to the kernel.
Thanks again
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"It is not for the feint of heart, but if anyone wants the directions to repeat this process and get a development system u p and running to build a custom kernel with unRAID, let me know. The hard part is the initial config file which I can give you. After you get it set up, it is just one script to compile, build the initramfs, and copy it all to the usb stick... so it is pretty easy to test out new kernels."
I would love to get a copy of the initial config file. I have been trying to build a custom kernel for a few days. I am rather new at linux so I need all the help i can get..
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I am sure he will respond soon. Hopefully with the modules included in the next build. I have already got a box up and ready to go just need to get it working with the card and the last thing to do it get the license. Just hate waiting
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If you can find a loadable module you probably can use it with unraid. You would have to load it yourself in the go script.
I have the two modules created just can not figure out how to get them to run/install. I have them on the usb stick and was trying to use insmod and modprobe but i am not having any luck...
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I don't recall any one else using it yet, so you may be the first. There is driver support for it, but I don't know if it is currently included in the unRAID release. I think the driver you want is rr232x, and a download page (bottom of page) for it is: http://www.highpoint-tech.com/USA/bios_rr2320.htm. That is not for you to download, but for Tom if he needs it, to be included in a future release. I of course cannot speak for him.
The above link is for a driver (rr232x) download for the RocketRaid 232x series cards, here is a driver (rr2340) link for the RocketRaid 2340 card: http://www.highpoint-tech.com/USA/bios_rr2340.htm.
And for the RocketRAID 231x/230x (rr231x): http://www.highpoint-tech.com/USA/bios_rr2300.htm.
Someone else may know how to check that these aren't already supplied in the linux 2.6 kernel, included with unRAID.
I actually have the 2320 and the 2314 cards it would be fantastic if I could get this to work. if there is not support for them in the kernel already, would it be possible to add the driver after loading the software. I love my 2314 card as it will handle 8 sata drives on the express buss. If i could get this to work i could have a total of 16 drives 12 sata and 4 pata.
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I am very interested in setting up a UnRaid server. I have tested a few of the mother boards that i have lying around and they seem to work ok. However I have this card and was wondering how hard it would be to get it working. I have tried and it does not seem to recognized.
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What i would like to do is be able to do it all on the usb drive. It is a 4 gig stick, I really only need to add 2 drivers for the rocket raid cards i have. Once that is setup I am all set. I am very happy with Unraid it just does not support my cards out of the box. 
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How hard would it be to get an sftp server setup in unraid?
Looking for a way to copy files over. When i use my mac leopard it seems to drop the connection alot..
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