On Tue, 2006-05-23 at 09:57 -0400, Steven Augart wrote: *snip* > (The motivation here was that FC 5's Anaconda has a bug in it that > crashes when it tries to find the CD drive on an IBM Blade Center, if > the Kickstart file is on CD. Although I fixed the bug and posted the > URL for the patches, it would be a lot less work, in most cases, just to > work around it by reading the Kickstart file off of a floppy disk.) This is exactly what a respin would fix =) > However, even though the scripts rebuild the initrd, I was using the > kernel that came with the initrd. I believe that the kernel builds for > the initrd and installer CD are identical to the stock kernel that ships > with FC 5 and is installed. So using the stock one from the RPM should > be safe. If you want to recompile the kernel for some reason, then > the .config file from that kernel is probably pretty safe too. > > I know that Hans K. Rosbach (at http://fedora.isphuset.no/ ) has rebuilt > the Fedora Core 4 installation CD set, with updated RPM packages, > including an updated installation kernel. He calls it "Unofficial FC > 4.2". I'm certainly curious to know how he rebuilt the initrd for FC 4 > with the updated installer kernel; I myself failed to do it. http://fedora.isphuset.no/howididit.txt I haven't commented it a lot, but together with the comments from the howto I derived it from it should be enough to get you going. > Here's the > story, in case you find it helpful to know about a path that didn't work > for me: > > I've been putting together an installation CD for us to use here at Mazu > Networks to install on our Mazu Profiler security appliance (a hardware > box that we sell). We want a single CD that has bundled on it the > Kickstart file we use and all of the packages we want to install. After > I got the FC 5 version working (by fixing Anaconda, as I mentioned > above), we made a technical decision to base the current release of the > product on FC 4. > > The problem here is that the distributed FC 4 installer comes with > kernel version 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4. 2.6.11 has a bug in the keyboard > driver which causes a kernel panic when booting on the IBM Blade Center. > 2.6.16 doesn't have it. So, before I discovered Hans Rosbach's kernel, *snip* Actually my respins contain the official kernel RPM updates, so nothing should differ from a normal install + updates. But I am glad to see that I have helped some people. I am considering making respins for FC5 aswell, but with the lack of cooperation from fedora or community members it's currently on hold. -HK -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
