Adding drivers to kickstart initrd.img
Dan Carpenter
error27 at gmail.com
Fri Apr 14 08:02:06 UTC 2006
On 4/13/06, Ryan C. Spaulding <rspaulding at mail.arc.nasa.gov> wrote:
> I think that a rebuild of anaconda could fix this problem but I
> could be totally going in the wrong direction.
>
A little bit in the wrong direction, yes.
I'll forward you the driver disk in a seperate email.
`dd if=3w-9xxx-4u3-amd64.144 of=/dev/fd0`
Boot from the CD and use "linux dd" to specify that there is a driver
disk. You'll need a floppy or USB key or something.
If you want to automate the package.
1) Download the anaconda source rpm
2) rpm2cpio anacond-src-foo-rpm | cpio -idmv
3) make
4) apply this patch
https://www.redhat.com/archives/anaconda-devel-list/2005-November/msg00018.html
5) cd loader2/ ; make loader
6-9) Unpack the initrd. Replace the old loader with the one you just
created. Put the driver disk in the initrd as /dd.img. Pack it back
up.
Then it's automatic. Or you could just put the driver disk on the
network I suppose but I don't recall the format for that...
regards,
dan carpenter
More information about the Kickstart-list
mailing list