Hello, I am currently using unattended 4.6 (Linux) to do automated installs of WinXP for our clients. I have noticed that the linux kernel (2.6.10) that is on the ISO posted on your files site is 2.6.10 and lacks a significant amount of driver support for the newer Intel SATA (AHCI) and UHCI/EHCI controllers.
I built a new bzimage on my Gentoo system using the latest stable 2.6.15 kernel, and compiled in most of the disk controller and network drivers statically (the PCI, Cardbus, and PCIe ones) to support a wide range of hardware. Also made sure to include initramfs and initrd support. Also I included some of the newer support for Dell firmware/ACPI/BIOS as well as the Toshiba and IBM support code as well. I rebuilt the ISO with this new kernel, and now it works great on installing a new system. It started with just a few of the PCIe-based systems, and now it looks like more of the systems that we're planning to roll out are suffering from this. I have a new ISO that fixes these PCs, at the expense of some "cannot load modules" errors with regard to the USB loadable modules. The warnings can be safely ignored, however, as the USB stuff was statically linked into the kernel. Its not really a very professional build, but I wanted to see if I could fix the problem. I can send it [the ISO] and the kernel config I used, if you like, as well as the simple steps I took to get it working. I have also booted it on some legacy hardware I have here and it appears to still work well. -- Coleman Kane IntelliTree Solutions llc. ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ unattended-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-devel
