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color=#0000ff size=2>put the following in your %pre:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2>When the server is kickstarted, it will stop in the pre
environment, waiting for you to kill the sleep process. Simply open a
console session (alt-f2), see how the CD is seen by the system, and use that
device/path to load the driver using driverdisk in the kickstart
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> kickstart-list-bounces@redhat.com
[mailto:kickstart-list-bounces@redhat.com] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Martin
Steinmann<BR><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, April 08, 2007 4:28 PM<BR><B>To:</B>
kickstart-list@redhat.com<BR><B>Subject:</B> Intel megasr RAID driver not
included with RHEL4<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<P><FONT size=2>We are using a new Intel server S5000PAL that requires a RAID
driver "megasr" not included with RHEL4. We use kickstart installation and
therefore cannot shuffle CDs during the installation process to add a driver
disk.<BR><BR>I am trying to modify the RHEL4 installation CD so that this driver
is included on the CD.<BR><BR>Can anyone point me to some documentation on how
this can be accomplished? Is kickstart able to automatically load a driver
from a directory on the same CD?<BR><BR><BR>I now have a CD (RHEL4u4 CD1 with a
ks.cfg file in the root of the CD. I copied the content of the Intel driver disk
for the megasr driver into the root of the CD.<BR><BR>I then started
experimenting with different settings in the file isolinux.cfg, such
as:<BR>dd=cdrom<BR>dd=path:/dev/hdb<BR>dd=path:/tmp/cdrom<BR><BR>The kickstart
file does not include any statements like dd or driverdisk (would that be
needed?).<BR><BR>None of this yields the desired result of an automated install
where the missing megasr driver is installed automatically. Looking on tty3 it
seems the system installs the libata driver and then sees two SATA disks (sda
and sdb) instead of the RAID 1 that is configured.<BR><BR>What I would like to
do is have one CD that includes everything needed for a RHEL4 minimum
installation including the Intel megasr driver required for the RAID controller
of this Intel server.<BR><BR>I see another path creating a custom initrd.img and
stage2.img file, but would like to avoid this if possible.<BR><BR>Please
help<BR>--martin<BR><BR><BR></FONT></P></BODY></HTML>