How to rebuild an Anaconda initrd/kernel with updated drivers?

[Koree A. Smith]

This is something I did a long time ago to add some broadcom drivers that
were newer than what RHEL 3 and 4 had to offer at the time.  I believe this
is the document I used to figure out how to do this:

http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-poweredge/2003-August/009343.html

It is for RH7.3, but worked on RHEL 3 and 4.  I would guess that it would be
somewhat similar for RHEL 5, although I have not done this on RHEL 5 as of
yet.

Thanks,

Koree

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On Jan 2, 2008 4:44 PM, michael at kmaclub.com <michael at kmaclub.com> wrote:

> Tim Born wrote:
> > Riggs, Ben wrote:
> >
> >> We have new motherboards with onboard NICs which aren't recognized by
> >> the fedora 7 installer initrd/kernel. Naturally, not having a NIC
> >> makes using network drivers impossible. Anyone have the skinny, or a
> >> link?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Ben
> >> --
> >> Systems Staff
> >> School of Mathematics
> >> University of Minnesota
> >>
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> > Not tried it, so your milage may vary ...
> >
> > I think you want to find or setup a machine that has the same kernel as
> > the one you are trying to install
> > then use mkinitrd to create a custom initrd including your drivers:
> >
> > /sbin/mkinitrd --with=$yourdriver custom.img `uname -r`
> >
> > Once that's built, swap it in for the initrd on your kickstart or burn a
> > custom ISO.
> >
>
>
> I used to do this in the RH7/RH8 days so things may have changed.
>
> Best I recall I would add the kernel to my build machine that matches
> what is on the boot media and boot from it.
>
> Build the network modules for the new driver.
>
> Mount the boot media
> Extract the initrd
> Add the new drivers to the extracted initrd
> Update the pciids to include the new hardware ( if required )
> Create a new initrd
> Update boot media with the new initrd
>
> Michael
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