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AndyM
Asked: 2011-04-09 05:54:34 +0800 CST

RHEL kickstart adding RAID driver question

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I've an IBM X3550M3 which I want to kickstart over the network and install RHEL5.u4

I get so far then it cannot recognize the built-in raid device - it does this with a straight DVD hands on install too.

I've dug around the IBM site and found the drivers http://delivery04.dhe.ibm.com/sar/CMA/XSA/02dkt/1/ibm_dd_sraidmr_00.00.04.37_rhel5_32-64.txt

I understand I can use the kickstart directive to tell it where to find the RAID driver devicedriver=path to device driver.img

What I'm not sure about is how I get the files from the downloaded RAID driver.iso to become an .img file so I can load them with PXE kickstart.

Can anyone explain the process, or point to some docs ?

Regards Andy

redhat kickstart

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    You probably want to specify a driverdisk option:

    http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Kickstart#driverdisk

    You probably will want to put them on your PXE server and serve them via http:

    --source=

    Specify a URL for the driver disk. NFS locations can be given with nfs:host:/path/to/img.

    Otherwise, recreate your initrd following thses steps:

    http://wiki.openvz.org/Modifying_initrd_image

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