[syslinux] building initrd.img with updated drivers

[Warren Harris]

Gustavo Guillermo Pérez - gustavo at compunauta.com wrote:

>El Martes, 20 de Septiembre de 2005 13:39, escribió:
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>>Can someone point me to instructions on how to build a
>>pxeboot/initrd.img with updated drivers. I would like to pxe boot and
>>install rh8 on a newer machine, and the pxeboot files that come with rh8
>>(2.4.20-8) don't support my e1000 NIC. I believe that the newer
>>2.4.20-28.8 drivers will, but I'm having trouble finding instructions in
>>rebuilding the pxeboot initrd.img + vmlinuz to include them. Thanks,
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>It is related to RH not syslinux, the way to build an initrd depends on the 
>installed RH and the tools like mkinitrd if exist (any) like on SuSE, SuSE 
>asks about the drivers to be inserted, I don't know how it to be for RH.
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>This is off topic for syslinux (it is just the boot loader).
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Gustavo - Thanks for your response. I was under the impression that 
pxelinux was a subproject of syslinux, and consequently there should be 
instructions somewhere on how to rebuild it's ram disk image. My 
question isn't really redhat specific.

Warren