We have building our own "initrd.img" files with added modules for our
kickstart floppy. Unfortunately under "rawhide" (aka: 8.1, soon to be
9.0) the kernel plus our modules no longer fit on a 1.4 meg floppy.
My answer was to chop out any bogus modules and build own BOOT kernel
deconfiging extra stuff not needed.
The problem I've found is that now this new kernel doesn't find the
modules we've placed in out "initrd.img" (no, there are no versioning
issues). In fact if I slim our "initrd.img" down (by leaving out some
of the modules we usually want) and just use the generic kernel you
come out with from using the "kernel-2.4.20-i386-BOOT.config" file, it
doesn't find the modules either. The same slimmed "initrd.img" works
fine with the kernel found in "bootdisk.img" (ie: it does find the
modules - in particular an "e1000.o" we've added).
The issue as far as I can tell appears that the "bootdisk.img" kernel
looks in "/modules/modules.cgz" and the built kernel does not. Maybe
I'm wrong though.
So, does anyone have a guess what I need to do here? Is there
something I'm not setting in the kernel build to set the module search
path?
Any help would be appreciated.
- Matt
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