Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
Eric Smith wrote:
I'm installing FC6 using kickstart from PXE. It works great, and I've
used this (and a similar setup with FC2) for years.
Now, I want to use a new kernel during the installation. FC6 comes
with 2.6.18-1.2798.fc6, and I want the boot to use some version of
2.6.20 or greater.
What I've been doing is installing with the default kernel, then
upgrading to 2.6.20-1.2962.fc6 after the installation is complete.
But now I have a need to run 2.6.20 during installation, because of
some hardware that's supported in 2.6.20 but not in 2.6.18.
So my question is: How do I create a new initrd.img and vmlinuz (that
came in the isolinux directory) to be a new kernel? It's apparently
not as simple as copying these files from a running system.
I've spent hours googling. I've seen all sorts of info on adding
drivers to initrd.img, but no info on updating the kernel.
Any info would be great!
Hi Eric,
-mandatory note about Fedora Core 6 being End Of Life, you should
upgrade or use some Enterprise Linux (derivative)-
you might want to take a look at Revisor. We've been doing successful
Fedora Core 6 spins in the past although it really started off with
Fedora 7... To indicate what is successful, here's the test matrix that
we commonly use (a Fedora 8 version of it):
http://spins.fedoraunity.org/Members/kanarip/fedora-8-test-matrix-template
Revisor you can find in the Fedora repositories (if you run Fedora 7 or
8), and there's a package built for EL5 as well.
See: http://revisor.fedoraunity.org and it's mailing list at
http://lists.fedoraunity.org/mailman/listinfo/revisor-users
Kind regards,
Jeroen van Meeuwen
-kanarip
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Just wanted to mention the different tools
1. revisor by Jeroen Meeuwen
2. pungi by Jessy Keating
3. buildinstall by anaconda team
AFAK they are in that order. (revisor uses pung and pungi uses buildinstall). I think if you want an easy way to do this your best bet is revisor, If you want to get into the core of things you might want to give buildinstall a try. It a very scarry shell script :)
Hope it helps.
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Joel Andres Granados
Red Hat / Brno, Czech Republic
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