Anaconda actually has code for using driver disk images from the initrd
but it doesn't work because of a bug. The attached patch fixes that.
There were some variables that weren't getting initialized early enough.
Take a normal driver disk floppy:
zcat ../initrd.img | cpio -idmv
dd if=/dev/fd0 of=dd.img
find | cpio -oc | gzip -9 > ../initrd.img
You can use this to for loading over the network etc.
regards,
dan carpenter
--- loader2/loader.c.orig 2005-11-21 08:35:46.000000000 -0800
+++ loader2/loader.c 2005-11-22 09:54:49.000000000 -0800
@@ -1302,6 +1302,11 @@
modInfo, flags);
}
+ /* These need to be initialized before we call getDDFromSource() ... */
+ loaderData.modLoaded = modLoaded;
+ loaderData.modDepsPtr = &modDeps;
+ loaderData.modInfo = modInfo;
+
if (!access("/dd.img", R_OK)) {
logMessage(INFO, "found /dd.img, loading drivers");
getDDFromSource(&loaderData, "path:/dd.img", flags);
@@ -1318,11 +1323,6 @@
busProbe(modInfo, modLoaded, modDeps, 0, flags);
- /* JKFIXME: should probably not be doing this, but ... */
- loaderData.modLoaded = modLoaded;
- loaderData.modDepsPtr = &modDeps;
- loaderData.modInfo = modInfo;
-
/* JKFIXME: we'd really like to do this before the busprobe, but then
* we won't have network devices available (and that's the only thing
* we support with this right now */
