Riggs, Ben wrote:
Being an undergrad with no classes for the next couple weeks and plenty
of time at work, I'm looking to find out what's behind door #1.
I think it goes like this. I'm assuming pxe.
cat <initrd> | gunzip | cpio <some options>
Inspect the tree you've created
Pop the driver module in place (there may be a further cpio or similar
archive you need to open). Repack if necessary
read linuxrc to see where it goes. Change whatever seems good
find <some options> | cpio <some options> | gzip ><initrd>
test boot.
repeat as necessary.
If you're booting from CD, you can do the above, but you need to unroll
the ISO first:
mount -o loop ... /mnt/iso
find /mnt/iso -name TRANS.TBL -exec rm -vf {} \;
Find the imbedded boot floppy and mount that.
Do as above. You may need to remove the initrd from the floppy before
putting it back.
mkisofs <I think the magic incantation can be found in anaconda>
cdrecord <burn to cd-rw or dvd-rw, you don't want to go through a
spindle of media for this>
Note, I have assumed your driver's built to match the install kernel.
This is necessary.
Wonder what to do for the next ten days.
Ben
Shabazian, Chip wrote:
Only two ways I know of:
1) Lots of work to rebuild with your nic drivers
2) put the drivers on the CD/Flash that you are using for the install
and use dd to load them
If you are using PXEBoot, you've gotta go with #1
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[mailto:kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Riggs, Ben
Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 2:13 PM
To: Discussion list about Kickstart
Subject: How to rebuild an Anaconda initrd/kernel with updated drivers?
We have new motherboards with onboard NICs which aren't recognized by
the fedora 7 installer initrd/kernel. Naturally, not having a NIC makes
using network drivers impossible. Anyone have the skinny, or a link?
Thanks,
Ben
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