Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >>>>> "TK" == Terje Kvernes <terjekv@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > TK> ah. that works. but, we then get VGs created for LVM2. no > TK> device mapper in our friendly Enterprise kernel. right. we're > TK> replacing the kernel anyway, but this is getting, uhm, hacky. > TK> :-) > > Yeah, I forgot that RHEL runs 2.4. You might have better luck using > the FC1 images, but you're right that it's getting really hackish at > this point. oh well, it ended up working. adding this to the end of the kickstart isn't pretty: # cd / # wget http://<distserver>/rhel/stage-base.tar.gz # tar xvzf stage-base.tar.gz # # mkdir /sys # # mv /usr/sbin/kudzu /usr/sbin/kudzu.gone # echo "#!/bin/sh" > /usr/sbin/kudzu # chmod a+rx /usr/sbin/kudzu # # ROOTDIR=/2.6-support # # cd $ROOTDIR # # cp -av $ROOTDIR/halt /etc/init.d/halt &&\ # cp -av $ROOTDIR/rc.sysinit /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit # # cat > /boot/grub/grub.conf<<EOF # default=0 # timeout=10 # splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz # title 2.6.7 # root (hd0,0) # kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.7-staticnet root=/dev/hda1 # EOF the stage-base.tar.gz contains device-mapper, lvm, module-init-tools and a few other things as binaries that just get written directly into the filesystem. it also contains a kernel with all the network support one can ever need, both with a 2.4 and a 2.6 kernel. the 2.4 kernel is patched with device-mapper to make it work with LVM2. -- Terje
