Syslinux - Sep 2005 - building initrd.img with updated drivers

Can someone point me to instructions on how to build a 
pxeboot/initrd.img with updated drivers. I would like to pxe boot and 
install rh8 on a newer machine, and the pxeboot files that come with rh8 
(2.4.20-8) don't support my e1000 NIC. I believe that the newer 
2.4.20-28.8 drivers will, but I'm having trouble finding instructions in 
rebuilding the pxeboot initrd.img + vmlinuz to include them. Thanks,

Warren

Gustavo Guillermo P?rez - gustavo at compunauta.com wrote:
>El Martes, 20 de Septiembre de 2005 13:39, escribi?:
>  
>
>>Can someone point me to instructions on how to build a
>>pxeboot/initrd.img with updated drivers. I would like to pxe boot and
>>install rh8 on a newer machine, and the pxeboot files that come with rh8
>>(2.4.20-8) don't support my e1000 NIC. I believe that the newer
>>2.4.20-28.8 drivers will, but I'm having trouble finding
instructions in
>>rebuilding the pxeboot initrd.img + vmlinuz to include them. Thanks,
>>    
>>
>It is related to RH not syslinux, the way to build an initrd depends on the 
>installed RH and the tools like mkinitrd if exist (any) like on SuSE, SuSE 
>asks about the drivers to be inserted, I don't know how it to be for RH.
>
>This is off topic for syslinux (it is just the boot loader).
>  
>
Gustavo - Thanks for your response. I was under the impression that 
pxelinux was a subproject of syslinux, and consequently there should be 
instructions somewhere on how to rebuild it's ram disk image. My 
question isn't really redhat specific.

Warren

El Martes, 20 de Septiembre de 2005 15:16, syslinux.5.warren at recursor.net 
escribi?:
> Gustavo Guillermo P?rez - gustavo at compunauta.com wrote:
> >El Martes, 20 de Septiembre de 2005 13:39, escribi?:
> >>Can someone point me to instructions on how to build a
> >>pxeboot/initrd.img with updated drivers. I would like to pxe boot
and
> >>install rh8 on a newer machine, and the pxeboot files that come
with rh8
> >>(2.4.20-8) don't support my e1000 NIC. I believe that the newer
> >>2.4.20-28.8 drivers will, but I'm having trouble finding
instructions in
> >>rebuilding the pxeboot initrd.img + vmlinuz to include them.
Thanks,
> >
> >It is related to RH not syslinux, the way to build an initrd depends on
> > the installed RH and the tools like mkinitrd if exist (any) like on
SuSE,
> > SuSE asks about the drivers to be inserted, I don't know how it to
be for
> > RH.
> >
> >This is off topic for syslinux (it is just the boot loader).
>
> Gustavo - Thanks for your response. I was under the impression that
> pxelinux was a subproject of syslinux, and consequently there should be
> instructions somewhere on how to rebuild it's ram disk image. My
> question isn't really redhat specific.
Initrd images are all of them a way to allow the Linux kernel some small root 
filesystem before really boots, this is possible cause the bootloader 
(syslinux, pxelinux, grub, lilo, loadlin, etc). But bootloaders are the way 
to use them not to make them. The people to make the stuff bootable on the 
ramdisk is the same people that makes the distribution may be you can hack 
the initrd uncompressing add/del some files and recompress.
gzip -d ramdisk.gz
mount -o loop ramdisk /mnt
do your stuff
umount /mnt
gzip ramdisk

hope helps.
-- 
Gustavo Guillermo P?rez
Compunauta uLinux
www.compunauta.com

Warren Harris wrote:
> Can someone point me to instructions on how to build a 
> pxeboot/initrd.img with updated drivers. I would like to pxe boot and 
> install rh8 on a newer machine, and the pxeboot files that come with rh8 
> (2.4.20-8) don't support my e1000 NIC. I believe that the newer 
> 2.4.20-28.8 drivers will, but I'm having trouble finding instructions
in
> rebuilding the pxeboot initrd.img + vmlinuz to include them. Thanks,
That's a distribution question, not a syslinux/pxelinux question.

	-hpa

Warren,

As other members of the ML have said, this is related to RedHat and is
not a problem of syslinux.

However, I encountered the same problem 1 year ago so here is a link
that may be should help you:
https://listman.redhat.com/archives/kickstart-list/2003-March/msg00183.html

Boris

Warren Harris wrote:
> Can someone point me to instructions on how to build a
> pxeboot/initrd.img with updated drivers. I would like to pxe boot and
> install rh8 on a newer machine, and the pxeboot files that come with
> rh8 (2.4.20-8) don't support my e1000 NIC. I believe that the newer
> 2.4.20-28.8 drivers will, but I'm having trouble finding instructions
> in rebuilding the pxeboot initrd.img + vmlinuz to include them. Thanks,
>
> Warren
>
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