I think I had the same problem when I was trying to do the same thing.
Don't remeber where I found it or if it was just trial and error but I
think it required some different cpio flags to fix.
Here are the pertinent lines from my script
#critical output file must be modules.cpio
find $KERNEL_VER -print -depth | cpio -H crc -ovF modules.cpio
gzip modules.cpio
rm -f $RD_MNT/modules/modules.cgz
cp modules.cpio.gz $RD_MNT/modules/modules.cgz
Chuck Moss
p.s. I will send you the whole script that works directly to your email
address.
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 10:09:22PM +0200, Jan Pettersson wrote:
> Hi,
> I am trying to use kickstart via NFS with the new 7.1 distribution. My
> problem is that the driver for my ethernet card is not on the bootnet disk,
> but on the driver disk. So when I boot the computer and gives "linux dd
> ks=floppy" at the prompt, kickstart starts but it ignores the driver disk
> (never reads it), and naturally the installation fails as it cant find a
> driver for the ethernet card.
> I have tried two different solutions, the first to insert a command to read
> the driver disk in the kickstart-file, the description of how to do that is
> rather vague. I never succeeded anyway.
> Secondly I tried to build a new bootnet disk, by inserting the relevant
> driver in "initrd.img" and then rebuilding this file. I used the procedure
> as outlined in http://www.introcomp.co.uk/linux/bootdisk.html.
> When I tried to repackage the file with cpio I got lots of "truncated inode
> number" messages, but it looked ok. However when I try to use my new
> bootnet image the installation fails to find /tmp/ks.cfg.
> There is also a lot of "error 2 reading header: cpio: Bad magic" error
> messages. If I just unpack "initrd.img" and then repack it without any
> changes (ie. inserting my module) I get the same errors.
>
> Hoping for suggestions or answers
> Sincerely Jan Pettersson
>
>
>
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