From: kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Martin Steinmann
Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2007 4:28 PM
To: kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Intel megasr RAID driver not included with RHEL4
We are using a new Intel server S5000PAL that requires a RAID
driver "megasr" not included with RHEL4. We use kickstart installation and
therefore cannot shuffle CDs during the installation process to add a driver
disk.
I am trying to modify the RHEL4 installation CD so that this driver
is included on the CD.
Can anyone point me to some documentation on how
this can be accomplished? Is kickstart able to automatically load a driver
from a directory on the same CD?
I now have a CD (RHEL4u4 CD1 with a
ks.cfg file in the root of the CD. I copied the content of the Intel driver disk
for the megasr driver into the root of the CD.
I then started
experimenting with different settings in the file isolinux.cfg, such
as:
dd=cdrom
dd=path:/dev/hdb
dd=path:/tmp/cdrom
The kickstart
file does not include any statements like dd or driverdisk (would that be
needed?).
None of this yields the desired result of an automated install
where the missing megasr driver is installed automatically. Looking on tty3 it
seems the system installs the libata driver and then sees two SATA disks (sda
and sdb) instead of the RAID 1 that is configured.
What I would like to
do is have one CD that includes everything needed for a RHEL4 minimum
installation including the Intel megasr driver required for the RAID controller
of this Intel server.
I see another path creating a custom initrd.img and
stage2.img file, but would like to avoid this if possible.
Please
help
--martin
