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