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Thanks for all the responses to my original
question!
I am still having some issues. Let me explain my
situation a bit better this time. I need to make a cd which installs a modified
(some of my own rpms get installed) redhat linux 8.0 on a server with no
interaction from the user (server has no keyboard,mouse or monitor). This did
work fine when Dell shipped there 1u series servers with Intel network
cards, now they ship them with Broadcom networks cards.
So when I first tried my install on the new server
eth0 was not up when I loggedin, so I tried to bring it up with ifconfig eth0
up, got a no such device error. I went to the web found the bcm5700 driver and
installed it (bcm5700.o) installed the module using insmod and brought the
interface up with no problems.
I figured I would create a new rpm which contains
the bcm5700.o and the new pcitable and pci.ids so the /etc/modules.conf file
would be correct after the first boot, and it was. The problem at this
point was that eth0 was still not up and not configured (no ifcfg-eth0 in
the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts directory). But the module was loaded and I
could go in and bring it up, so my rpm did something.
Looking into anaconda I saw that it checks the
network with a function that looks at /proc/net/dev file, if it doesn't find
anything it skips the network config all together. So that brought me to my
current issue. I thought if I added the bcm5700.o driver to the
isolinux/initrd.img (and updated the module files) the module would be
loaded and anaconda would see it and setup the network.
Well this did not work, looking into it a bit
more I saw some stuff on stage2.img, this seems to have many more of the
drivers and such. So it seems that I need to modify that instead of the
initrd.img, is this correct?
Can anyone give me some info on the redhat boot
process, specifically the files in the i386/base directory including
stage2.img
Thanks so much!!
Glenn
MacGregor
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