Creating new Installer Disk with custom kernel HOWTO

[Juergen Vigna]

Hello,

one more thing while adding my small patch to the kernel ide interface
I've seen that the Fedora Kernel has an error there. The ID 9 is assigned
twice!

Regards,

          Jürgen

Juergen Vigna wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have a problem that my VIA 6410 IDE chip is not seen by the installer
> disk of Fedora Core 1. There is a really easy patch to this for the ide
> driver of the kernel and I already verified that it works. Now I have
> the problem that I would have to integrate this patch into the kernel
> used to boot from the CD1 of Fedora Core 1.
> 
> Is there some documentation or HOWTO somewhere which explains how to
> recreate this CD with a new custom kernel? I tried but failed. It
> boots now the new kernel and I see the disks attached to the VIA chip
> but then when it wants to load the modules it tells me that the cpio
> format is not correct :(
> 
> Hope someone here can give me a tip. Or maybe your interested in adding
> this small patch to the Fedora Kernel? ;P
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>             Jürgen


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