Re: [SD4L-user] reg scramdisk installation on REDHAT

[Hans-Ulrich J. <han...@t-...>]

Hello Mohammed,

Mohammed Cyclegar wrote:
> Hello ALL
>  
> I am trying to compile and install on Redhat Enterprise 4 64 Bit ( Kernel 2.6.9).
>  
> It seems everything worked but when i try to create a container at the time of mounting its giving me error. ( I am using scramdisk GUI)
>  
> To me it seems like error because of the kernel module not loaded.
> Installed all the prerequsite packages.
>  
> This is what i have done
> ./configure 
>  make
> make install
>  
> create a conf file in ld.so.conf.d to point point to scramdisk.ko  and ran ldconfig.
>  
> Can you please help me resolve this issue. or of there is a rpm for Redhat i can use it.
>  

there is no configure script in the sources of SD4L.
So make and make install suffices. Of course, you have
to do the make install as user root. The file in ld.so.conf.d
also is bypassed by the SD4L mechanism. The make install
calls
/etc/init.d/scramdisk start
which creates device nodes in the new directory /dev/scramdisk
and loads scramdisk.ko into the kernel.
You may check the result by
/etc/init.d/scramdisk status
which should tell you
Scramdisk loaded, uses: 0
if the start was successful and you aren't using the module yet.
If not try
/etc/init.d/scramdisk start
again by hand and look at the error messages (if any). Possibly
you have to call
/etc/init.d/scramdisk stop
first.

Best regards
Ulrich