Fedora installation kernel and driver disk bug?
Michael Madore
mmadore at aslab.com
Wed Nov 19 17:45:34 UTC 2003
Hi,
I have built driver disks for previous versions of RedHat to support
installation with disk controllers or network adapters not supported
with the drivers on CD. I am attempting to do the same with Fedora, but
it seems that the behavior of the installer has been changed a bit.
Instead of searching for the driver under:
2.4.22-1.2115.nptlBOOT
The installer is searching under:
2.4.22-1.2115.nptl
Not only that, but it expects the driver to be compiled using the
kernel-2.4.22-i586.config file.
Putting i586 driver modules in this directory will allow the system to
be installed, but then the wrong modules get installed under
/lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2115.nptl and the system won't boot. The
workaround is to boot the SMP kernel and then copy the proper modules
and remake the initial ramdisk. Is this a bug, or has the layout of the
driver disks changed?
Mike Madore
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