Tom G Murphy wrote, On 01/28/2011 04:19 PM: > <SNIP> > My goal is to be able to boot a "modified" kernel on the cold install > step so we can download the firmware updates and eliminate the second boot. > > I have tried using using the bzImage generated from the modified kernel > build but that kernel fails to be able to load the kickstart file :-( > But it does boot with out errors? Can you install (just CentOS) using it but without using the kickstart file? > I have done searches trying to find the .config file used to build the > kernel booted during cold install but have had no luck. > > I am guessing I have either have too much or too little included in the > kernel. I tried to make sure everything I thought was needed were not > modules but included in the kernel. > > Does anyone have any suggestions? > --- Are you starting with the kernel SRPM from CentOS? When I did something similar for a system needing to boot from USB on RHEL 4, I started with the srpm for the kernel that matched the kernel that would be installed by the "cold install", and used the config files that came in it. I had to mod the config file to force all the USB physical devices I new were going to be used in the install process to be built in, IIRC I figured out that I did not want to mess with all the modules and I did not want to mess with the contents of the initrd provided by RH (it broke bad anytime I did), so I ONLY forced with the USB to not be a module and let the other modules be provided by the contents of the original initrd. secondary trick, change all the "%define build*"s in the spec file that you don't need to 0. it speeds up the build a lot. -- Todd Denniston Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane) Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter