I am attempting to build a RedHat AS 2.1 Update 2 (2.4.9-e.24) boot.iso disk with the 1.18k megaraid driver included in it to install on many Dell PE 1750s with the Perc 4/Di RAID cards. I know there are some driver disks available for the megaraid driver, but driver disks just add too much complexity for the sometimes non-technical staff that has to do the final install of these servers. Whenever I use my new boot disk, I get the following error message: "The second stage of the install which you have selected does not match the boot disk which you are using. I am going to reboot your system now." Does anyone have any idea where this is coming from? Or how Anaconda determines a match between boot and 2nd stage media? It seems to come shortly after the netstg1.img file is downloaded to the 1750 being built. (virtual console output at the end of this message). Here is the long version of what I've done to build the new images: - download the megaraid drivers (1.18k) and compile against 2.4.9-e.24BOOT using DKMS per linux.dell.com. -Using the basic procedure outlined at http://www.puschitz.com/Kickstart.shtml I added the following to isolinux/initrd.img, RedHat/base/stage2.img, RedHat/base/netstg1.img: - added new megaraid.o to modules.cgz - added the following line to the pcitable: 0x1028 0x000f "megaraid" "Dell|PowerEdge Expandable RAID Controller 4/Di" Sorry for the long email, but here's the console output when I get this message: * transferring ftp://<my.kickstartserver.com>/kickstart/as_2.1u2/Redhat/base/updates.img to a fd * transferring ftp://<my.kickstartserver.com>/kickstart/as_2.1u2/disc1/Redhat/base/updates. img to a fd * transferring ftp://<my.kickstartserver.com>/kickstart/as_2.1u2/Redhat/base/netstg1.img to a fd * copied 8712192 bytes to /tmp/ramfs/netstg1.img * loopfd is 13 * getting ready to spawn shell now .................. <6> tg3: eth0: Link is up at 100Mps, full duplex <6> tg3: eth0: Flow control is off for TX and off for RX. <4> Unable to identify CD-ROM format <4> VFS: Can't find ext2 filesystem on dev loop(7,0). I'm baffled why this won't work and would really appreciate if anyone has any comments/ideas. thanks, Robert
