On Mon, 2002-03-25 at 09:47, Garrett Mead wrote: > Good day, > I am interested in installing RH 7.2 on a new system which has a > promise SX6000 IDE RAID controller. Promise only distributes a driver > for RH 7.0/7.1. I have read that I2O support is included in most > modern 2.4.x kernels. As such I am interested in building a kernel > with static support for I2O or module support for the same. >
Does the RH installation detects the raid card? Its quite a hassle to build a custom boot.img This might help http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Bootdisk-HOWTO/index.html http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/KickStart-HOWTO-9.html I think the best to help you out is this link, if RH doesn't support your card straight out of the disc. http://linuxdoc.org/LDP/LG/issue73/mwaikambo.html > I have seen some documentation on adding a new vmlinux file to the > boot.img along with custom modules, however the process is still not > clear to me. > > Is there a HOW-TO somewhere outlining how to take a newly built kernel > and place it and its supported modules on the boot.img file to be used > for a fresh RH 7.2 installation? > > One of my main questions has to do with what kernel settings are > required for the installation process? Is the kernel .config that was > used by RH to build the default vmlinux file on the boot.img available > for reference somewhere? > > Thank you for your time. > > -- Garrett > > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
