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

Kennedy, Cameron Cameron.Kennedy at bovislendlease.com
Mon Jan 7 13:46:28 UTC 2008


If I use the 2nd option below, what is the syntax to have dd look in a
place other than a floppy for the drivers? 
In other words, I have server with USB and Cd-rom only, and no usb
floppy available, but I need to have the raid drivers installed at
system build time. I tried using dd but only get the option for it to
search a floppy for the drivers. I am using the bootimg from a rhel4.5
cd and other than the lack of raid drivers, I can get the server built
using kickstart via ftp option. 

If this is not possible, I can try option 1. 
Thanks for any ideas. 

-----Original Message-----
From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com
[mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Shabazian, Chip
Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 5:18 PM
To: Discussion list about Kickstart
Subject: RE: How to rebuild an Anaconda initrd/kernel with updated
drivers?

Only two ways I know of:

1) Lots of work to rebuild with your nic drivers
2) put the drivers on the CD/Flash that you are using for the install
and use dd to load them

If you are using PXEBoot, you've gotta go with #1

-----Original Message-----
From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com
[mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Riggs, Ben
Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 2:13 PM
To: Discussion list about Kickstart
Subject: How to rebuild an Anaconda initrd/kernel with updated drivers?

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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