Hi Dennis, Red Hat is terminating support for Red Hat as of December 31, 2003. I recently did an install of RHEL WS 3 and it identified an SATA drive right out of the box. I don't know if fedora would work, but it is a possibility. David > -----Original Message----- > From: kickstart-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:kickstart-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Dennis Peere > Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 8:00 AM > To: kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Adding SATA/SCSI drivers to /boot/initrd.2.4.18-14.img > > > Dear All, > > I'm (still) trying to perform a kickstart harddrive installation of RH8.0 > (2.4.18-14) on a SATA disk with a Promise SATA TX2Plus controller. > The problem is that the kernel doesn't recognize the controller > when booting > after installation. > To solve this problem I've added the correct "driver" pdc-ultra.o to the > initrd that is used during the installation and changed the pcitable. > My system now installs correctly but after reboot I get the > following error > message : > VFS: Cannot open root device "LABEL=/" or 00:00 > Please append a correct "root=" boot option > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 00:00 > > This is because the pdc-ultra.o isn't included in the > initrd.2.4.18-14.img. > Can someone please tell me how to add this file to the .img ? > I was able to add the file to the initrd.img of a boot floppy so > I can acces > my installed system to test. > > I tried the following procedure but it doesn't seem to work : > cp /boot/initrd-2.4.18.14.img /tmp > cd /tmp > mkdir initrd > mv initrd-2.4.18.14.img initrd-2.4.18.14.gz > gunzip initrd-2.4.18.14.gz > mount -o loop initrd-2.4.18.14 initrd > cp pdc-ultra.o /tmp/initrd/lib > cp scsi_mod.o /tmp/initrd/lib > cp sd_mod.o /tmp/initrd/lib > > I inserted the following lines in /tmp/initrd/linuxrc before it starts > mounting file systems: > echo "Load scsi_mod module" > insmod /lib/scsi_mod.o > echo "Load sd_mod module" > insmod /lib/sd_mod.o > echo "Loading Promise module" > insmod /lib/pdc-ultra.o > > cd /tmp > umount initrd > gzip initrd-2.4.18.14 > mv initrd-2.4.18.14.gz initrd-2.4.18.14.img > cp -f /tmp/initrd-2.4.18.14.img /boot/initrd-2.4.18.14.img > > After a reboot I get the message : > RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 > > I hope someone can tell me where I went wrong... > Regards, > > Dennis > > _________________________________________________________________ > Gratis e-mail ? http://www.msn.be/hotmail > > > > >
