NFS kickstart fails with e1000.ko drivers

[Joe Robertson]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: lccha-rhlist at naos.org [mailto:lccha-rhlist at naos.org] 
> Sent: Friday, May 07, 2004 4:11 PM
> To: Discussion list about Kickstart
> Subject: Re: NFS kickstart fails with e1000.ko drivers
> 
> 
> 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
> 

I'm using Fedora Core 2 test 3 and the e1000 driver is already
included in the ramdisk - /modules/modules.cgz

I'm not familiar with compiling the kernel image.  I assume
that if it is in the ramdisk, then it probably isn't
compiled into the kernel in the distribution?

Joe

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