Upgrading kernel in ISO images
Paul Howarth
paul at city-fan.org
Wed Jan 26 09:12:54 UTC 2005
On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 10:05 +0100, Bruno Eteve wrote:
> Hello,
> I've downloaded Fedora Core 3 ISO images a few weeks ago and want
> to install it on a Dell PowerEdge SC420 with SATA hard disks.
>
> Unfortunately, the SATA driver fails to recognize the controller.
>
> I installed Fedora Core 3 on a IDE (PATA) drive, upgraded the kernel
> via up2date, and could access the SATA drive.
>
> I understand that the new kernel version supports the SATA controller
> (ICH6R) better than the kernel embedded in my ISO images.
>
> I wonder if :
> - the ISO images on the Fedora web site are upgraded with new kernel versions
>
> or
>
> - how could I rebuild an Fedora installer with a newer kernel version ?
Another alternative might be to build a driver disk for the SATA
controller, but there's precious little documentation around on how to
do that.
Paul.
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