Adding drivers to kickstart initrd.img
Ryan C. Spaulding
rspaulding at mail.arc.nasa.gov
Fri Apr 14 15:11:31 UTC 2006
Hi All,
Thank you for the instructions. I was looking over the kickstart
documentation again and it looks like it has been updated with 4.0
release 3. I am going to attempt using what looks like a new option
called --driverdisk (with Dan's driver disk). Looks like I can
specify a driver disk via ftp, http and nfs.
I will let you all know how it goes.
Thank you,
Ryan
On Apr 14, 2006, at 1:02 AM, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> 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
>
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