On Fri, 31 May 2002 Rebecca.R.Hepper@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Hey All, > > I need to do a Redhat 7.1 kickstart on a system with a Promise ATA RAID > controller which requires a driver called ft.o. I follow an old kickstart > posting to add drivers to modules.cgz (see my steps below). I add the ft.o > driver, modify the module-info and module.dep files then create a kickstart > floppy. On the main screen, it says "Loading ft driver"; on the Alt F3 > screen I see the following: > going to insmod ft.o (path is null) why do you want to use the fastrak stuff? the promise fastrak "raid"-controller is nothing more than a bios bootable software-raid. so why not use linux' own software-raid - it performs better, and is quite easy to install (it should work setting it up via kickstart, too). the only point for using it i see is, that a coexsisting windoze should use the fastrak stuff for striping, too. by the way, the ft.o module just leads to a scsi-device which can be accessed from the installer - /dev/ataraid/d0p1 etc. doesn't work from there... hope that helped somehow timo > /tmp/ft.o: unresolved symbol scsi_unregister_module > /tmp/ft.o: unresolved symbol scsi_register > /tmp/ft.o: unresolved symbol scsi_register_module > Then eventually: "no IDE floppy devices found" and the main screen says > "No valid devices found on which to create new filesystems" > > Since the modules.dep file shows scsi_mod as a dependency I thought maybe I > needed to add that to modules.cgz. I added it and receive the same errors > plus more, similiar to the following " /tmp/scsi_mod unresolved errors" > > Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks! > > > > Here are my steps to add drivers to modules.cgz: > > prereq. > copy of the standard boot and drivers images > /mnt/cdrom/images/bootnet.img and drivers.img > > 1. Set things up for us > 1. mkdir /tmp/boot > 2. mkdir /tmp/boot/custum_img > 3. mkdir /tmp/boot/initrd_img > 4. mkdir /tmp/boot/modules > 5. mkdir /tmp/drivers > 6. mkdir /tmp/drivers/drivers_img > 7. mkdir /tmp/drivers/modules > 8. cp /mnt/cdrom/images/bootnet.img /tmp/boot/custom.img > 9. cp /mnt/cdrom/images/drivers.img /tmp/drivers/ > > 2. Mount and decompress the files from boot image > 1. get into boot working dir. cd /tmp/boot > 2. mount custum.img as filesystem mount -o loop custum.img custum_img > 3. decompress the initrd gzip -dc custum_img/initrd.img >initrd.ext2 > 4. mount initrd.ext2 as filesystem mount -o loop initrd.ext2 initrd_img > 5. get modules from initrd_img gzip -dc initrd_img/modules/modules.cgz > >modules.cpio > 6. extract cpio archive into /tmp/boot/modules cd /tmp/boot/modules; > cpio -idumv </tmp/boot/modules.cpio > > 3. Make the changes that's requeried i.e get new modules in place > 1. copy ft.o to /tmp/boot/modules/2.4.2-2BOOT > 2. remove unwanted modules in 2.4.2-2BOOT > 3. edit /tmp/boot/initrd_img/modules/module-info remove old modules > enter info for new modules > 4. Find new dependencies if any & update > /tmp/boot/initrd_img/modules/modules.dep > 5. Find new hardware update if any & update > /tmp/boot/initrd_img/modules/pcitable > > 4. Rebuild the new boot disk > 1. get into modules dir. cd /tmp/boot/modules > 2. create new modules.cpio file find 2.4.2-2BOOT -print -depth |cpio > -H > crc -ovF modules.cpio 2> /dev/null > 3. compress modules.cpio gzip -S .cgz modules.cpio > 4. remove old modules.cgz rm /tmp/boot/initrd_img/modules/modules.cgz > 5. mv new modules.cgz in place mv modules.cpio.cgz > /tmp/boot/initrd_img/modules/modules.cgz > 6. get into boot dir. cd /tmp/boot/initrd_img > 7. create zerofile touch zerofile > 8. fill up filesystem with zero's cat /dev/zero >zerofile > 9. sync filesystem to disk sync > 10. remove zerofile rm zerofile > 12. cd /tmp/boot > 11. unmount initrd filesystem umount initrd_img > 12. recompress initrd.ext2 gzip initrd.ext2 > 13. remove old initrd.img rm custum_img/initrd.img > 14. place new initrd on boot img mv initrd.ext2.gz > custum_img/initrd.img > 15. unmount bootnet filesystem umount custum_img > > 5. place custum.img on boot disk > 1. dd if=custum.img of=/dev/fdo > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Kickstart-list mailing list > Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list > > >
