Matt Hyclak schrieb: > On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 04:17:14PM +0100, Sascha Vogt enlightened us: > >> Matt Hyclak schrieb: >> >>> On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 01:52:11PM +0100, Sascha Vogt enlightened us: >>> >>> >>>> Juan Jose Pablos schrieb: >>>> >>>> >>>>> Michael De Groote escribió: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> most of the time you can get the kernel version with "uname -a" i think >>>>>> but not sure of the kernel used by unattended though :) >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> for 4.7 is 2.6.23.11 >>>>> >>>>> >>>> Yes, but what is it? >>>> >>>> A SYSLINUX Kernel >>>> An unattended Kernel based on syslinux >>>> An unattended kernel >>>> >>>> (After PXE - Linuxboot, when the booted linux cant find a NIC and drops >>>> to bash.) >>>> >>>> I'd just want to know into which sources I'd have to dig first to get >>>> that thing going. >>>> >>>> Sorry, but you can see the knots in my brain... >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> It is the linux kernel that you have to change. Did you look into the >>> mailing list archives as I suggested? >>> >>> SYSLINUX is merely a boot loader. It is used unmodified by unattended. >>> >>> The unattended "linuxboot" image is a linux kernel and some applications and >>> scripts to start the installation. The software used is also largely >>> unmodified. >>> >>> Find the post from the last couple of days from this list or maybe >>> unattended-devel which listed step-by-step how to replace the e1000 drivers >>> in the linuxboot image. >>> >>> Matt >>> >>> >>> >> Yep, found that one. >> >> So I will (clean-)install a Debian Distro on a new box, get the Kernel-, >> unattended- and syslinux-snapshots, do a testrun by compiling >> erverything. If it works, I will apply the changes as suggested in >> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=20080201132951.GA5579%40business.aau.dk&forum_name=unattended-info >> >> and try that. >> >> Anything wrong with that plan? I just dont trust SuSE 10.0 on my >> day-to-day Workstation enough to try it there. It has to do it's job on >> monday ;-). >> >> > > You really should only need the unattended source (either from CVS or the > release) for linuxboot. Running make download will get the linux kernel > source (and everything else, for that matter), and syslinux is already > included. > > Otherwise it sounds like a fine plan. > > Matt > > Ok, did that...
Installed the package on a fresh debian, started "make download" tinkered the Makefile to get and include kernel 2.6.24, downloaded again, typed "make". And then THINGS happened... Ugly, nasty things. Did some even more ugly and nasty things to some configure scripts in the Make file, like "without-gpm" to dosemu and other things. At one point I even had "make clean && ./configure && make" on my middle mouse button... But finally it completed without errors. "make all" , created a new linuxboot.iso and bzImage and initrd in tftboot. It worked! I can boot via PXE and from CD. It finds \\ntinstall\install, I can choose the os to install, it ask's lots of questions... But then, when it tries to format the disk, it reboots. So good, so bad, enough for today. Tomorow I will dig the archives for that problem. Good news are, that unattended compiles with 2.6.24 and now finds and uses the 82566 NIC on an Intel DG33BU Motherboard. Thanks for the attention and help! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ unattended-info mailing list unattended-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
