[syslinux] [PXELINUX]A PXE booting question, please

[Eric Tang]

Hi Luciano,

Thanks.

Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha wrote:
> You need to add the network card driver to the initrd. Or recompile the
> kernel with it integrated.
>
> As for the first case, you'll have to add the module to modules.cgz (a
> compressed cpio archive), IIRC. There's probably some files you also
> need to update that specify module dependencies and PCI IDs to device
> drivers.
>
>   
I tried that, but it just not works for me.
> Also, there may be different initrds with different modules according to
> expected usage (network install, pcmcia install, etc.; see images/ on
> the ISO).
>
>   
I was using the initrd.img from the images/pxeboot.

It seems the only way left for me is to recompile the kernel.

Regards,
Eric