Drew Weaver wrote:

Does anyone have a howto or documentation on how to add new drivers to the pxeboot initrd/kernel? It appears that although some newer dells (t300) have Broadcom NetXtreme IIs in them, 4.6 won't recognize them for some reason (possibly because they're dual port?)

You can use a driver disk hosted on either the install media or a usb key / floppy disk / cd-r ---

Unfortunately we do our installs via PXE remotely, so it would be difficult, there is no way to modify the pxeboot initrd?

-Drew

Drew Weaver wrote:

Drew Weaver wrote:

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Does anyone have a howto or documentation on how to add new drivers to the pxeboot initrd/kernel? It appears that although some newer dells (t300) have Broadcom NetXtreme IIs in them, 4.6 won't recognize them for some reason (possibly because they're dual port?)

You can use a driver disk hosted on either the install media or a usb key / floppy disk / cd-r

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Unfortunately we do our installs via PXE remotely, so it would be difficult, there is no way to modify the pxeboot initrd?

-Drew _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Hi this is definitely possible, we have had to do similar.

What I would suggest is that you install one system using a driver disk or similar so that you have a working system to use to help identify changes needed to your initrd.

There is a lot of good documentation about modifying initrd's its just that some of it needs to be adjusted slightly for newer Red Hat based systems.

Try http://sial.org/howto/linux/initrd/ http://wiki.openvz.org/Modifying_initrd_image http://forums12.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?admit=109447627... http://forums12.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?admit=109447627+1212015469230+28353475&threadId=1158742

And remember just because the initrd used for PXE Booting is modified doesn't mean that the initd on the installed systems is modified as well. I hope this helps

Good Luck :)