loading driverdisk in isolinux.cfg
 

Hi,
I am trying to accomplish a kickastart installation of RHEL5.4. I am loading a driverdisk[megasr] which has been copied to the RHEl5.4 ISO image root directory. I am trying to do this as to run the installation without any additional fdd's.

My isolinux.cfg is as follows :

default linux ks=cdrom:/ks.cfg
prompt 1
timeout 600
display boot.msg
F1 boot.msg
F2 options.msg
F3 general.msg
F4 param.msg
F5 rescue.msg
label linux
kernel vmlinuz
append initrd=initrd.img dd=cdrom:/megasr-13.12.1009.2009-1-rhel50-u4-all.img
label text
kernel vmlinuz
append initrd=initrd.img text
label ks
kernel vmlinuz
append ks initrd=initrd.img
label local
localboot 1
label memtest86
kernel memtest
append -


My ks.cfg is as follows :

install
cdrom
key --skip
lang en_US.UTF-8
keyboard us
xconfig --startxonboot
network --device eth0 --bootproto dhcp
rootpw --iscrypted $1$RByT0rMh$Q7lvC55bQOHunY5B0HR..1
firewall --enabled --port=22:tcp
authconfig --enableshadow --enablemd5
selinux --enforcing
timezone --utc America/New_York
bootloader --location=mbr --driveorder=hda --append="rhgb quiet"
# The following is the partition information you requested
# Note that any partitions you deleted are not expressed
# here so unless you clear all partitions first, this is
# not guaranteed to work
clearpart --linux --drives=hda
part /boot --fstype ext3 --size=100 --ondisk=hda
part pv.6 --size=0 --grow --ondisk=hda
volgroup VolGroup01 --pesize=32768 pv.6
logvol / --fstype ext3 --name=LogVol00 --vgname=VolGroup01 --size=1024 --grow
logvol swap --fstype swap --name=LogVol01 --vgname=VolGroup01 --size=1024 --grow --maxsize=2048

%packages
@admin-tools
@base
@core
@development-libs
@development-tools
@dialup
@editors
@gnome-desktop
@gnome-software-development
@games
@graphical-internet
@graphics
@java
@legacy-software-support
@office
@printing
@sound-and-video
@text-internet
@web-server
@x-software-development
@base-x
kexec-tools
fipscheck
device-mapper-multipath
sgpio
imake
emacs
libsane-hpaio
mesa-libGLU-devel
xorg-x11-utils
xorg-x11-server-Xnest
xorg-x11-server-Xvfb
-sysreport


Basically I want the megasr drivers get loaded as installation begins before the default ahci drivers, but currently it is unable to load them as I guess they are not being detected from the argument in isolinux.cfg. Any pointers???

Any help is much appreciated.

Thanks,
Prasad.

You don't seem to be using the 'driverdisk' option in your kickstart file...

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/e...2-options.html

cheers

Hi KBP,
Wouldn't reference to the driverdisk in the isolinux.cfg suffice ?? or do we also need to mention the same in the kickstart configuration??

Could you please let me know what extra needs to be added. Also the driver diskette is the one marked in bold above using the dd option in the isolinux.cfg

Thanks,
Prasad.