Miles,

Use the version of genhdlist in 308,  this bug has been fixed in the 308 
version.

-Connie Sieh

On Wed, 15 Nov 2006, Miles O'Neal wrote:

> We use a kickstart CDROM, but load the RPMs across
> the nwtwork from a filer.  Our new systems use an
> ethernet chip not supported by vanilla SL304.  We
> have an updated CDROM that uses the driver, and we
> have an RPM with the driver files that we can manually
> install.
> 
> BUT... we need that RPM installed as part of the base
> kickstart so the CDROM is plug and play.  Otherwise
> the POST script fails because it can't find the ethernet
> driver.
> 
> I added the sk98lin rpm to the directlry containing
> all the other RPMS (/SciLinux/3.0.4/32bit/LiveFS/SL/RPMS)
> and ran:
> 
>    sudo /usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/genhdlist /SciLinux/3.0.4/32bit/LiveFS
> 
> but this consistent fails with a mesage like:
> 
> mmap error on (null)
> genhdlist:              genhdlist [--withnumbers] [--fileorder <path>] [--hdlist <path>] [--site <path>] [--default <name>] [--ignorefile <name>] [--ignorelog <name>] <paths>+
> 
> If I run this on a 305 system I get
> 
> error creating file /export/os_images/SciLinux/3.0.4/32bit/LiveFS/(null)/base/hdlist: No such file or directory
> 
> Where is this (null) coming from?
> 
> There's no man page for genhdlist.  Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks,
> Miles
>