[nflug] Making Red Hat driver disks.

[mark k]

Sounds like you would need to roll it into the initrd do, if you have a
working system to work from that might be a good start

Hi dennis

On Feb 13, 2008 1:14 PM, Dennis Ruzeski <denniruz at gmail.com> wrote:

> SAS/SATA HBA's.
>
>
> On Feb 13, 2008 1:13 PM, Darin Perusich <Darin.Perusich at cognigencorp.com>
> wrote:
> > That's going to be a bit more challenging. What kind of hardware are we
> > talking about?
> >
> >
> > Dennis Ruzeski wrote:
> > > In a perfect world, it would be to complete the installation and then
> > > to use devices attached to boot from.
> > >
> > > I'll check those links.
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > >
> > > --Dennis
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Feb 13, 2008 12:36 PM, Darin Perusich
> > > <Darin.Perusich at cognigencorp.com> wrote:
> > >> Does the system need this controller to complete the installation or
> is
> > >> it a nice to have? Normally you'll just create an RPM of the driver
> and
> > >> add it to your installation sources and it can be included during the
> > >> install. This would be the case if it wasn't required for the
> > >> installation. If it's required for the installation then things start
> > >> getting a little more custom, i.e. custom installation cd's and
> initrd
> > >> images.
> > >>
> > >> I wasn't able to find anything RH specific but these references may
> be
> > >> helpful.
> > >>
> > >> http://www.suse.de/~ug/ <http://www.suse.de/%7Eug/>
> > >> http://wiki.openssi.org/go/Third_party_drivers
> > >> http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2004-June/042716.html
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Dennis Ruzeski wrote:
> > >>> Greetings, group-
> > >>>
> > >>> I'm in a position where I need to be able to create a driver disk
> for
> > >>> RHEL 4 and 5 so that a controller without a driver in the kernel can
> > >>> get installed and boot. I'm having a hell of a hard time finding
> > >>> anything about creation of these disks. Does anyone have any insight
> > >>> or a link to a website that outlines this process?
> > >>>
> > >> --
> > >> Darin Perusich
> > >> Unix Systems Administrator
> > >> Cognigen Corporation
> > >> 395 Youngs Rd.
> > >> Williamsville, NY 14221
> > >> Phone: 716-633-3463
> > >> Email: darinper at cognigencorp.com
> > >>
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