Usb-storage not part of default drivers?

[Jason Edgecombe]

does adding a kernel option at the boot prompt fix things? If so, you 
can add those parameters to the isolinux.cfg file

Jason

Philip Prindeville wrote:
> I was trying to install FC5  onto a machine with an ailing DVD (ROM)
> drive that was never all that fast or reliable to begin with (it was a
> first generation Philips).  I had a Sony external DVD drive with USB 2.0
> lying around, and tried to boot off that.
>
> Well, the BIOS loader found the first image and loaded it up fine, but
> once Linux was coming up from the FC-5-x86_64-DVD.iso image, it
> failed to find the Fedora image.
>
> Huh?
>
> Well, it was of course because it wasn't loading up usb-storage by
> default.
>
> Hmmm...  I'd think that this would be pretty ubiquitous at this point.
>
> What's the reasoning for leaving that out?  Are there scenarios where
> loading it crashes or hangs the system?
>
> Sure, it's easy enough to specify by hand.
>
> Is there an easy way to tweak the .iso so that it gets included by default?
> Looking at section 7.10 of the Kickstart guide doesn't suggest that
> there's an option to throw into isolinux/isolinux.cfg to do this.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Philip
>
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