Well, that's the thing... I know how to load up additional drivers from a driver disk, but I don't know how to specify additional optional drivers that are already part of the media to be loaded as well. I tried to find an option to do that both in the Kickstart manual and in the bootparam manpage, but couldn't find anything. Maybe I'm just dense. -Philip Jason Edgecombe wrote: >does adding a kernel option at the boot prompt fix things? If so, you >can add those parameters to the isolinux.cfg file > >Jason > >Philip Prindeville wrote: > > >>I was trying to install FC5 onto a machine with an ailing DVD (ROM) >>drive that was never all that fast or reliable to begin with (it was a >>first generation Philips). I had a Sony external DVD drive with USB 2.0 >>lying around, and tried to boot off that. >> >>Well, the BIOS loader found the first image and loaded it up fine, but >>once Linux was coming up from the FC-5-x86_64-DVD.iso image, it >>failed to find the Fedora image. >> >>Huh? >> >>Well, it was of course because it wasn't loading up usb-storage by >>default. >> >>Hmmm... I'd think that this would be pretty ubiquitous at this point. >> >>What's the reasoning for leaving that out? Are there scenarios where >>loading it crashes or hangs the system? >> >>Sure, it's easy enough to specify by hand. >> >>Is there an easy way to tweak the .iso so that it gets included by default? >>Looking at section 7.10 of the Kickstart guide doesn't suggest that >>there's an option to throw into isolinux/isolinux.cfg to do this. >> >>Thanks, >> >>-Philip >> >>
