On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 5:16 AM, Robert Heller heller@deepsoft.com wrote:
I need to be able to install CentOS 5.2 on a machine with software RAID (and LVM) setup. I discovered (the hard way!) that there is a bug in the mkinitrd package that causes it to enter an endless loop when there are /dev/mapper/ devices present during the install process. There is a patch to mkinitrd, which I applied and created a new rpm for mkinitrd with this patch applied. I'd like to now create a alternitive install CD, but I am not sure of the exact mkisofs command line to properly create a bootable CD.
I am also not sure if I need to update any of the files the installer uses to install the system -- is it enough to just drop the alternitive mkinitrd rpm? Do I need to rebuild any of the other files on the CD?
Dumb suggestion: Can't you use isomaster or any of those iso editor tools to replace that one file? :)