Kickstart loading driver
Peter Eisch
peter at boku.net
Wed Dec 8 20:21:54 UTC 2004
Ah, you're much newer. It could just be the hwdata that needs to get
updated in your case. I think I, last spring, did the mod_load's in the
ks.cfg but didn't find it to be as elegant as putting a mkinitrd preloading
my drivers into the kernel's %post (not kickstart -- in the rpm script).
If the driver is good with the kernel and all are on the cdrom, then you
probably only need to update the files in the isolinux/initrd.img with the
right pci controller information.
Oh, you can then ignore my script then too...
In this case it might be as easy as:
gzip -d < isolinux/initrd.img > /tmp/initrd.img
mkdir /tmp/initrd
mount -o loop /tmp/initrd.img /tmp/initrd
<fix up module-info, pcitable, modules.pcimap, modules.dep (if necessary)
umount /tmp/initrd
gzip -9 < /tmp/initrd.img > isolinux/initrd.img
<burn the image>
I'm still stuck in 7.3 installers -- so much for "corporate standardization"
in my world. I haven't tried this as I'm still in the dark ages but you
should be able to verify that your controller is mapped to a driver in these
files. Use 'lspci' on the installed system to work out the right PCI info.
I will verify the results of my lspci agains newer hwdata rpms and then
update the entries accordingly.
peter
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