[CentOS] PXE-Kernel crashes with "RAMDISK: incomplete write ..." after modifiying initrd.img

John Doe wrote:
> Frank Thommen wrote:
>>> To modify the initrd.img, I took the original CentOS 5.2 image, unpacked 
>>> with cpio/gunzip and replaced modules/2.6.18-92.el5/x86_64/e1000e.ko 
>>> with a current version.  This driver module had been created on a 
>>> freshly installed CentOS 5.2 host with kernel 2.6.18-92.el5 and w/o any 
>>> updates.  After adding the driver, I re-archived and re-packed the image 
>>> and replaced the initrd.img on my tftp server.
>>>  
>>> The new image is considerably bigger than the old one (12 MB vs. 5.7 MB) 
>>> which puzzles me, as the driver file itself is 2.8 MB (compared to the 
>>> old e1000e.ko with ca 170 KB) but the resulting modules.cgz is only 
>>> around 700 KB bigger than the original one.  All files have been 
>>> compressed with `gzip -9`.
> 
> Just wondering... can you safely strip modules like you would strip executables?

Unfortunately stripping didn't help.  Same error message at boot.


frank