USB devices not being seen in anaconda during RHEL4 kickstart

[John Summerfield]

Ben wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Mar 2009, Al Alder wrote:
> 
>> Had a very similar problem with some HP servers and RHEL 4.  RHEL 4 
>> did not recognize the disk controller in the newer HP machines.  Our 
>> solution was to go to RHEL 4.6 which had the driver for the newer disk 
>> controllers. So you are running into a similar problem with your USB 
>> stick.  RHEL5.3 works because its initrd image has the driver for the 
>> USB.  You can
>>
>> 1) rebuild your initrd image with the USB driver
>> 2) just use RHEL 5.3
>>
>> I investigated number 1, but couldn't find any documentation that 
>> explained how to that for the initial install boot initrd.  Am sure I 
>> could have monkeyed with it and gotten it to work if I had had the time.
> 
> I'm not sure I want to get into rolling my own special initrd, but needs 
> must and all that.

Last I did it, it's not hard, it was a compressed CPIO archive.
mkdir /tmp/initrd
cd /tmp/initrd
cat /boot/initrd | gunzip | cpio --extract -d
{
   hack
   repack
   test
} until done

The hack is the hard bit:-)
It's also a good way to get your ks file in there.




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