----- "Tim Nelson" <tnel...@rockbochs.com> wrote: > Greetings list! > > Because of the sheer number of box (re)installations we do that have a > CentOS base, I've converted our provisioning process to PXE. However, > I've found that an alarming number of motherboards are coming with the > Realtek RTL8168 ethernet controller onboard. When the system boots, it > cannot find an ethernet controller and the installer process hangs. > > I made a new initrd from a running system that was installed via CD > and had the kernel module installed afterwards. However, when using > the new initrd to PXE boot a new box, it dies saying something about > not being able to use/find /dev. The original initrd from the ISO is > 5.1MB whereas the initrd I built from the working system is only > 2.4MB. I have a feeling that the initrd I built (using mkinitrd -v > --with=r8168 <path to output initrd> <kernel version>) does not > include modules required by the installer. > > So, my question is this: is there a way to (1) create an initrd with > ALL available modules or at the very least, (2) take the original ISO > initrd and simply add the module I need? This initrd will need to work > with all of the other hardware I support and should not be specialized > for this single motherboard if possible. > > I've been up and down Google/CentOS Wiki/etc and cannot seem to find a > valid way of doing either of the above. > > Suggestions, ideas, help? >
Surely someone has rebuilt the initrd for the installer ISO? I recall seeing something on the list about it previously in regards to storage controllers but I cannot seem to find it now... Is there somewhere I can look to see the original mkinitrd command used to build the initrd on the ISO? I could then ensure I have all of the modules specified there along with my additional module. --Tim _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
