[CentOS] Cold install kernel .config file

2011-01-28 Thread Tom G Murphy
Convey uses a highly modified CentOS kernel to work with our attach coprocessor. Currently to setup a system for delivery we do a cold install using a stock CentOS cold install using kickstart. During that cold install we lay down our modified kernel and reboot the system with that

Re: [CentOS] Cold install kernel .config file

2011-01-28 Thread JohnS
On Fri, 2011-01-28 at 15:19 -0600, Tom G Murphy wrote: Nothing hard about doing this I do it a lot. My RT KickStart built into isolinux %post # Update the Install # We pull in our kern.repo file for updates. Magic! yum -y install -c http://192.168.2.200/kicks/kern.repo kernel-rt # Clean out

Re: [CentOS] Cold install kernel .config file

2011-01-28 Thread Tom Murphy
Thanks John. This is what I do to put our modified kernel into place. The modified kernel has routines to talk to our coprocessor via the pcibus and it is not a standard device. A generic kernel does not know how to talk to the coprocessor, what I want to do is build an install kernel that can

Re: [CentOS] Cold install kernel .config file

2011-01-28 Thread Todd Denniston
Tom G Murphy wrote, On 01/28/2011 04:19 PM: SNIP My goal is to be able to boot a modified kernel on the cold install step so we can download the firmware updates and eliminate the second boot. I have tried using using the bzImage generated from the modified kernel build but that kernel

Re: [CentOS] Cold install kernel .config file

2011-01-28 Thread Karanbir Singh
Hi, On 01/28/2011 11:01 PM, Tom Murphy wrote: The modified kernel has routines to talk to our coprocessor via the pcibus and it is not a standard device. A generic kernel does not know how to talk to the coprocessor, what I want to do is build an install kernel that can talk to the

Re: [CentOS] Cold install kernel .config file

2011-01-28 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 01/28/2011 09:19 PM, Tom G Murphy wrote: I am guessing I have either have too much or too little included in the kernel. I tried to make sure everything I thought was needed were not modules but included in the kernel. Does anyone have any suggestions? use the %post thing as John pointed

Re: [CentOS] Cold install kernel .config file

2011-01-28 Thread Tom Murphy
Thanks, this is an great idea. On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 6:14 PM, Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.orgwrote: On 01/28/2011 09:19 PM, Tom G Murphy wrote: I am guessing I have either have too much or too little included in the kernel. I tried to make sure everything I thought was needed were not