Usb-storage not part of default drivers?

[Philip Prindeville]

Well, that's the thing...  I know how to load up additional
drivers from a driver disk, but I don't know how to specify
additional optional drivers that are already part of the media
to be loaded as well.

I tried to find an option to do that both in the Kickstart manual
and in the bootparam manpage, but couldn't find anything.

Maybe I'm just dense.

-Philip

Jason Edgecombe wrote:

>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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