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Re: Installing RHEl5.4 on 64 bit box with additional driverdisk(megasr) | |
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On 03/23/2010 12:35 AM, Prasad Pednekar wrote:
Hi All, Pardon me for my knowledge about RHEL installation process using a kickstart file, as I me being a newbie to this. Currently we are creating a custom RHEL5.4 DVD, the issue lies when we try to load the megasr driverdisk which we have copied onto the DVD, We want to load the megasr driver in place of the default ahci drivers as to configure RAID on the box. But with various different options tried out we are blocked and cannot proceed further. Please let me know if you need any further information.
I assume you've tried adding a "device scsi megasr" option to your kickstart file. Failing that, you could create a driver disk and either put its contents in the root of a partition or put the disk image somewhere on your network and use the "driverdisk" option: driverdisk /dev/hda1 --type=ext3 driverdisk --source=ftp://host/path/to/dd.img driverdisk --source=http://host/path/to/dd.img driverdisk --source=nfs:host:/path/to/dd.img It is rather difficult to force-feed a driver into a kickstart system beyond those methods. The only other way I can think of is to respin the DVD image. You need to create a directory on the disk you can expand the images of the disk in and bugger the installer's kernel and that of Anaconda by changing the modules.alias file to call in yourdriver for the PCI ID of your card in place of the ahci driver, something like:
WAS: alias pci:v000011ABd00006121sv*sd*bc*sc*i* ahci CHANGE TO: alias pci:v000011ABd00006121sv*sd*bc*sc*i* megasr You also need to put the megasr driver in the appropriate bits of the /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/ata directory, then respin the DVD image completely. Assuming you have something more recent than RHEL 5.4 (say Fedora 7 or later), there are tools around to do this pretty easily (e.g. a tool called "revisor"). Those would probably be your best bet and I'd highly recommend it if you're going to be respinning images a lot. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, C2 Hosting ricks@xxxxxxxx - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 22643734 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - LOOK OUT!!! BEHIND YOU!!! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Redhat-install-list mailing list Redhat-install-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: redhat-install-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: unsubscribe