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<br><br>Hi dennis<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 13, 2008 1:14 PM, Dennis Ruzeski <<a href="mailto:denniruz@gmail.com">denniruz@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">SAS/SATA HBA's.<br><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br><br>On Feb 13, 2008 1:13 PM, Darin Perusich <<a href="mailto:Darin.Perusich@cognigencorp.com">Darin.Perusich@cognigencorp.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> That's going to be a bit more challenging. What kind of hardware are we<br>> talking about?<br>><br>><br>> Dennis Ruzeski wrote:<br>> > In a perfect world, it would be to complete the installation and then<br>
> > to use devices attached to boot from.<br>> ><br>> > I'll check those links.<br>> ><br>> > Thanks!<br>> ><br>> > --Dennis<br>> ><br>> ><br>> ><br>> > On Feb 13, 2008 12:36 PM, Darin Perusich<br>
> > <<a href="mailto:Darin.Perusich@cognigencorp.com">Darin.Perusich@cognigencorp.com</a>> wrote:<br>> >> Does the system need this controller to complete the installation or is<br>> >> it a nice to have? Normally you'll just create an RPM of the driver and<br>
> >> add it to your installation sources and it can be included during the<br>> >> install. This would be the case if it wasn't required for the<br>> >> installation. If it's required for the installation then things start<br>
> >> getting a little more custom, i.e. custom installation cd's and initrd<br>> >> images.<br>> >><br>> >> I wasn't able to find anything RH specific but these references may be<br>
> >> helpful.<br>> >><br>> >> <a href="http://www.suse.de/%7Eug/" target="_blank">http://www.suse.de/~ug/</a><br>> >> <a href="http://wiki.openssi.org/go/Third_party_drivers" target="_blank">http://wiki.openssi.org/go/Third_party_drivers</a><br>
> >> <a href="http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2004-June/042716.html" target="_blank">http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2004-June/042716.html</a><br>> >><br>> >><br>> >> Dennis Ruzeski wrote:<br>
> >>> Greetings, group-<br>> >>><br>> >>> I'm in a position where I need to be able to create a driver disk for<br>> >>> RHEL 4 and 5 so that a controller without a driver in the kernel can<br>
> >>> get installed and boot. I'm having a hell of a hard time finding<br>> >>> anything about creation of these disks. Does anyone have any insight<br>> >>> or a link to a website that outlines this process?<br>
> >>><br>> >> --<br>> >> Darin Perusich<br>> >> Unix Systems Administrator<br>> >> Cognigen Corporation<br>> >> 395 Youngs Rd.<br>> >> Williamsville, NY 14221<br>
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