Kickstart loading driver

[Bill (William) Triest]

Any help you can give me would greatly be appreciated.  It seems like
this would be a decently common thing to have happen, so maybe it would
be worth it to try and make this more available.

I realized I should have mentioned that I'm attempting this on RHELWS3

THanks,
Bill


On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 14:55, Peter Eisch wrote:
> It needs to be in the boot.img's initrd image.  I think the pcitable and
> module-info files need to be primped as well.  This is what I do on my 7.3
> builds.  You need to do the samething, for the most part, with the
> base/stage2.img as well.
> 
> I have a script that I've cobbled together based on what I've been able to
> scrub off the net.  It ain't pretty, but it at least does some error
> checking.  
> 
> peter
> 
> On 12/8/04 1:41 PM, "Bill (William) Triest"
> <wtriest at chemistry.ohio-state.edu> wrote:
> 
> > First of all I think I've come across a bug.
> > 
> > If I do a kickstart install, then it says no hard drives were found and
> > would I like to load a driver.  It doesn't matter if I hit yes or no, it
> > goes on with its steps and it finally says no hard drive was found (ie I
> > never got a chance to load the driver).
> > 
> > With that said, I can do a manual install and load ata_piix and
> > eveyrthing works fine.  Is there a way I can load this driver in my
> > kickstart file (like the %pre section).  I tried adding /sbin/modprobe
> > ata_aiix but that didn't work.  Next shot would be insmod, but I have
> > other issues (with the type rate of the keyboard) so I thought I would
> > ask before I start trying different combinations.
> > 
> > I'm really hoping this is documentated some where, but the kickstart
> > documentation I've come across hasn't been helpful.  So I'll happily
> > RTFM is you can point me to the M.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Bill
> > Student Worker - Linux
> > Chemistry Department
> > The Ohio State University
> > 
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