Adding SATA driver to kernel during OS installation

[Kaplan, Andrew H.]

Hi there ---

Thanks for your reply. I did try that approach and while the initial
installation did appear to go by without incident. After I rebooted the system
upon completion of the installation, I was confronted with the 
following error message:

				operating system not found

It would appear the drivers are loaded during the installation but are 
not retained thereafter. The 


-----Original Message-----
From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] On
Behalf Of Paul Howarth
Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 10:54 AM
To: For users of Fedora Core releases
Subject: Re: Adding SATA driver to kernel during OS installation

Kaplan, Andrew H. wrote:
> I need to add a SATA controller driver to the kernel of Fedora Core 3 during
the
> installation of the OS onto a hard drive. I have the driver compiled on a
floppy
> disk via the rawritewin utility. How would I go about including the driver
into
> the kernel during the initial installation? Thanks.

Boot the installer using "linux dd". It will prompt you to insert a 
driver disk at the appropriate point.

An example of the Fedora Core (>2) driver disk format can be found in a 
posting I made last year:
http://listman.redhat.com/archives/anaconda-devel-list/2004-August/msg00051.html

Whilst driver disks don't work in FC2 
(http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=122952), they're OK 
in FC3 and FC4 (I know because I've made and used them).

Paul.

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