[rhelv6-list] live media on USB 3 ports

[Brian Long (brilong)]

On Aug 16, 2013, at 3:57 PM, Phil Meyer <pmeyer at themeyerfarm.com> wrote:

> On 08/16/2013 01:16 PM, Brian Long (brilong) wrote:
>> On Aug 16, 2013, at 3:09 PM, Phil Meyer <pmeyer at themeyerfarm.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 08/16/2013 12:29 PM, Jonathan Billings wrote:
>>>> On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 2:18 PM, Phil Meyer <pmeyer at themeyerfarm.com> wrote:
>>>>> The issue is that the USB 3 extensions are handled by the newish xhci-hcd.ko
>>>>> driver, which is not placed in the /isolinux/initrd0.img when the Live CDROM
>>>>> or DVD is created.
>>>> Which Live CDROM or DVD are you talking about?  As far as I
>>>> understand, there is no LiveCD for RHEL6.
>>>> 
>>>> Are you talking about the anaconda install DVD image?
>>>> 
>>> I should have also said that this LiveCD is a prototype, and it may ship as RHEL.
>> Phil,
>> I've not built my own RHEL install media in about 5 years, but it used to be you could alter the anaconda configuration to bring in extra kernel modules to the initrd.  Which method are you currently using to build the media?
>> 
>> Could you just add the XHCI kernel module to your initrd manually?
>> 
>> /Brian/
>> 
> 
> Yes, but there are TWO initrd images on a live cd image.  The one in
> 
> /isolinux/initrd0.img is generated by the livecd-creator python stuff, and I am unable to see how it happens, and there is no command line option to add kernel modules.  Inside the post-install I can, and do, force the issue with a dracut command to rebuild the initrd the system would normally see if it were running from a hard drive.
> 
> The initrd that is used at boot time is NOT the same as the initrd that is inside the squashfs.

I wonder if these tools would work for RHEL 6…

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Features/ReworkLiveCD

/Brian/

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