[CentOS] Need to rebuild installation CD

Scott Silva ssilva at sgvwater.com
Mon Jun 22 17:21:01 UTC 2009


on 6-21-2009 10:20 PM Chadley Wilson spake the following:
>> The initrd's are created as part of the post section of the kernel RPM. If
>> you can get your driver into the kernel rpm it should get into the initrd.
> [CW] Hi Scott, thanks for the response, so you are saying that if I get the kernel source rpm, then compile the driver and build a new kernel rpm, put it on the disc and rebuild the disc this should work?
> [CW] I would very much appreciate some pointers to some how-to's on this if anyone knows of any good ones.
> 
Basically, yes. You need to get your driver into the kernel that the CD boots
from, and into the kernel rpm on the CD. If the kernel rpm is done right, it
will run mkinitrd with the existing loaded driver names as an argument.

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