On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, Andreas Heiss wrote: > Hi Folks, > I have a problem with SL4: > We got some new Opteron-Nodes and want to install them with SL4 with= > =20 > Quattor. > Unfortunately, the new boxes have a bcm network chip which needs the > bcm5700 kernel module to work. This module is not available in the= > =20 > installation initrd.img but we have the source-code for it. > How can I put this module into the initrd.img ? > Which version is the installation kernel? SL 4.0 kernel-2.6.9-5.0.5.EL.x86_64.rpm SL 4.1 kernel-2.6.9-11.EL.x86_64.rpm SL 4.2 kernel-2.6.9-22.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm > > Where can I get the sources and config file for the installation kern= > el? ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/4x/SRPMS/vendor/errata/ > How can I build an installation kernel and initrd which finds the= > =20 > correct root partition of the installation system? I think you are better off with making a "driver disk". A tool kit to help with this process is available from http://people.redhat.com/mwaite/ddiskit-0.9.1.tgz -Connie Sieh > > Thank you. > cheers > Andreas > > > > --=20 > Dr. Andreas Heiss > Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe > Institut f=FCr Wissenschaftliches Rechnen (IWR) > GridKa > Fon: +49 7247 82-5639, Fax: +49 7247 82-4972 >