Use grub with a tftp session.. -----Original Message----- From: Matt Fahrner [mailto:Matt.Fahrner@xxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 12:31 PM To: kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Shrinking the kickstart image 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 -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Matt Fahrner 2 South Park St. Manager of Networking Willis House Burlington Coat Factory Warehouse Lebanon, N.H. 03766 TEL: (603) 448-4100 xt 5150 USA FAX: (603) 443-6190 Matt.Fahrner@xxxxxxxx --------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list
