hi connie,

sorry for the cross post.

> I would check that there are only spaces after the skipx.
i was only mentioning this beacuse SL3/4 didn't give any problems.
>>
>> b. we are missing a scsi driver (for 3ware 9650) in the pxe initrd, so
>> i'm trying to add it (done this before.)
>>
>> but know i get stuck in the very first step:
>> afterdownloading initrd.img, gunzipping it, i try to mount it and i get
> 
> It is now a cpio archive.
what are the correct instrcutions to remake the initrd after patching 
the modules?
i tried with cpio -o |gzip -c9 > initrd.img, but then i got an error 
that it couldn't find any filesystem.
i'm now trying with old-style ext2.

i'll keep you posted.

stijn