Please allow me to clarify, I unzipped, modified the contents of (added binaries, libs and a shell script), and rezipped that initrd.img.
Thanks! Paul On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Paul Armor wrote: > Hi Cedric, > I've tried modifying /mnt/cdrom/images/pxeboot/initrd.img, which is placed > under /tftpboot on our dhcp/tftp server and served when a node pxe boots, > but I've not had much success modifying this file. I need to replace init > with a custom init, add a couple of binaries (sfdisk, cat, and other > goodies), along with necessary libraries. And I only seem to be able to > add about 100-200K of stuff before the changes to the size of the ramdisk > cause kickstart/anaconda to start failing in strange ways. If I make the > image file larger, it fails in one way; if I add >200K to the original > image file, it fails in a different way. > > Are you aware of a size limitation to the the ramdisk image? In the file > that is served via during the dhcp/tftp transaction initially, I specify > "ramdisk_size=16384" (which is much larger than the initrd.img); but > changing this didn't seem to help. > > Any other ideas? > > Thanks! > > Paul > > On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Cedric MARSOT wrote: > > > With Redhat 9, you have to modifiy isolinux/isolinux.bin and it will work. > > And then burn a CDROM ... > > > > If you are using floppy, modify initrd.img in bootdisk.img. > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-install-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list > To Unsubscribe Go To ABOVE URL or send a message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: unsubscribe > > > -- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ + UWM-LSC Group Systems Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] + + Physics 462 + + U. of W. - Milwaukee + + PO Box 413 414-229-2677 + + Milwaukee, WI 53201 fax 414-229-5589 + ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
