NFS kickstart fails with e1000.ko drivers

[lccha-rhlist at naos.org]

Once upon a time (like on May 07, 2004), ccollier at viawest.net wrote:
> On Fri, 7 May 2004, Joe Cooper wrote:
> > Joe Robertson wrote:
> --snip--
> > I'd be pleased as punch if someone would tell me what I missed in my 
> > modifications of the kickstart initrd image, that would make this 
> > work...Even a simple list of files that must be changed when adding a 
> > new or modified driver to the kickstart image (so I could spot the one I 
> > didn't change) would be exceedingly useful.
> --snip--
> 
> I struggled with some similar issues with the e1000 and rh 7.3.  
> Typically, for module insertion into the ramdisk you have to edit these 
> three files found inside the ramdisk:

Hi -

I too struggled with e1000 vs RH 7.3 in the past, and had similar
symptoms to what Joe described.  I found it easier to compile support
for the e1000 into a new kernel image and use that for kickstart
instead of trying to add the e1000 module into the ramdisk.

We've had a few sets of machines with this card.  When we purchased
our machines, the rev of the card was changing pretty frequently, so
we'd have to check for updated e1000 drivers from Intel's website
pretty often.  Hopefully things are more stable now.

-L