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