Jeffrey, I found a workaround of sorts. Since the kickstart process stubbornly refuses to pull the e1000 module out of the custom cpio pack (I don't think it's an insmod problem because, as mentioned, it'll insmod the module fine if you use the alternate driver disk) you have to help it out a little. Ordinarily (or so it appears), the module installation process is to extract the file from the cpio dump into the 'tmp' directory in the initrd.img image, and then insmod it from there. If you put the e1000 module in the tmp directory *beforehand* (i.e., during the creation of the custom initrd.img) you are able to sidestep the extraction problems. I imagine this might solve other module issues. While the solution isn't all that intriguing the problem itself still has me scratching my head. Based on everything I know, there should not be an issue here. ah well, that's computing. Let me know if you're still having problems and I can send you my custom bootnet.img for your analysis. cheers Frans ---------------- Frans Lawaetz Systems Administrator LION bioscience Research, Inc. 141 Portland Street, 10th Floor Cambridge, MA 02139 frans.lawaetz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Phone - 617.245.5478 Fax - 617.245.5499 -----Original Message----- From: kickstart-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:kickstart-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Elam, Jeffrey S Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 10:00 AM To: kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: e1000 module installation weirdness Frans, Sorry I have no suggestion for you yet - I'm in the exact same boat right now trying to kickstart a 7.1 build over e1000 Gigabit on IBM MPro desktops and Netfinity servers. I've done pretty much the same steps as you described with the same results. The next thing I'll try is to manually insmod the e1000.o module in the linuxrc script. If you find a solution, make sure you send it to the list. I'll do the same. _____________ Jeffrey S. Elam Engineering Computing Support Intel Austin Design Center 1501 S. Mopac Expressway, Suite 400, Austin, TX 78746 M/S: AN1-4A13 | Ph: (512) 314-0612 -----Original Message----- From: Frans Lawaetz [mailto:frans.lawaetz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 9:09 AM To: kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: e1000 module installation weirdness Hi all, I've slugged at this for a full day and simply can't find a solution. here goes.. I have a bunch of machines with Intel Gigabit cards that I'm trying to kickstart to 7.2. The regular bootnet.img disk does not contain the e1000.o module needed for these NIC's, but the additional driver disk "drvnet.img" does. The module contained there *will* load if I manually swap disks and tell the install to look. To get the e1000 module onto the regular bootnet.img disk I did the following... First, the usual routine of gunzipping initrd.img, and then gunzip&cpio the modules.cgz included within. I removed a few networking modules that I didn't need, and added e1000.o that I took from the supplemental network driver disk. I carefully copied and pasted the definitions from modinfo on the NIC driver disk to module-info on the bootnet.img disk (yeah, i dunno why the driver disk's module info file is called 'modinfo' while the other is 'module-info') and did the same for the pcitab file. I then cpio'd, gzip'd everything back together and made myself a new boot floppy. End result? The kickstart process fails to load the module and doesn't provide much more information than that. It will display the module name as a potential choice in the list, but obviously fails again if selected. So why is it that it fails here, but when I hit F2 and try the same module from the supplemental driver disk it works?! (Unfortunately, I have to get everything on one disk as none of these machines have monitors or are KVM'd.) Thanks in advance for any help! Frans _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list
