Clint Dilks wrote:

Hi,

I am trying to create a custom initrd that will work with PXE Booting on CentOS release 4.5 (Final) and Fedora Core 6. Can anyone point me to some documentation that will help with this ?

The specific situation is that we have received some machines that need the latest e1000 Driver from Intel in order to detect the network card. If I install the systems without network and then do rpmbuild -tb e1000-7.6.9.tar.gz a RPM is built and can be installed, and the Network card works fine as soon as you load the new e1000 Module. But we could be receiving a number of these systems so a Kickstart installation is required.

I have tried installing the version of the kernel uses during kick start installs and then creating and installing the e1000 rpm and then updating the pxe initrd with the version of e1000.ko that is created but still the the card isn't detected.

Another thing I have tried is creating a respin using Pungi and then using the PXE images that this generates but still no joy.

I do know that the Card works fine with CentOS 5 and Fedora 7. Aside from upgrading to these does anyone have any suggestions? :)

You might want to try the RHEL4 kernels at http://people.redhat.com/~jbaron/rhel4/ - these will become (with possibly some more tweaks) the 4.6 kernels

They might have e1000 updates you need.

James Pearson

On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 22:13 +1300, Clint Dilks wrote:

Hi,

I am trying to create a custom initrd that will work with PXE Booting on CentOS release 4.5 (Final) and Fedora Core 6. Can anyone point me to some documentation that will help with this ?

The specific situation is that we have received some machines that need the latest e1000 Driver from Intel in order to detect the network card. If I install the systems without network and then do rpmbuild -tb e1000-7.6.9.tar.gz a RPM is built and can be installed, and the Network card works fine as soon as you load the new e1000 Module. But we could be receiving a number of these systems so a Kickstart installation is required.

I have tried installing the version of the kernel uses during kick start installs and then creating and installing the e1000 rpm and then updating the pxe initrd with the version of e1000.ko that is created but still the the card isn't detected.

Another thing I have tried is creating a respin using Pungi and then using the PXE images that this generates but still no joy.

I do know that the Card works fine with CentOS 5 and Fedora 7. Aside from upgrading to these does anyone have any suggestions? :)

I don't have time now for a detailed answer, but a google on the following may provide some clues:

initrd module site:lists.centos.org

Phil