mixing RHEL 4.0 and 4.6 boot

[Peter M. Groen]

On Wed, 9 Jul 2008 11:44:08 -0400
"Joe_Wulf" <Joe_Wulf at yahoo.com> wrote:

Or you could customize the kernel and rebuild initrd. There are good
documents on the internet on how to do that.

> Very doubtful... pxelinux.0 is the engine that gets the vmlinux,
> initrd.img and the isolinux.cfg files over to the target for booting.
> You'd still be transfering those RHEL4.0 files over.
>  
> what might work is addiing the driver into the kickstart process via the
> 'driverdisk' option.
> 
> 
> R,
> -Joe Wulf, CISSP, USN(RET)
>  Senior IA Engineer
>  ProSync Technology Group, LLC
>  www.prosync.com
> 
> 
>   _____  
> 
> From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Al Alder
> Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 10:57
> To: kickstart-list at redhat.com
> Subject: mixing RHEL 4.0 and 4.6 boot
> 
> 
> We have an HP Proliant server.  This server has SATA drives.  We are
> required by our customer to install
> RHEL 4.0.  The kickstart that we use is done via PXE boot.  The 4.0 does
> not have the driver for the SATA drives.
> RHEL 4.6 does have the drive.  Will replacing the kickstart 4.0
> pxelinux.0 on the kickstart machine with the 4.6
> pxelinux.0 cause the server to boot with the right driver and then
> continue to install 4.0?
> 


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