On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 10:03:59AM -0800, Vikas Aggarwal wrote: > Hi, > I have to load NIC drivers for a specific vendor during initrd stage. > I can modify mkinitrd to do this but problem is that a particular MAC > address should only get a specific ethX interface. > Now without the help of /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethX how can > i achieve this. > During install time i can save the MAC address & which ethX into the > ramdisk(with my customized mkinitrd). > > Is UDEV into the initrd a solution to this problem? Yes. > I am on Red- Hat Enterprise linux 4, kernel 2.6.9. > Is there a UDEV available in initrd stage? Yes. As this is a RHEL specific question, I suggest you contact your account manager and get the proper support from them (as you did pay for it...) good luck, greg k-h -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
