Jaroslaw Polok <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >Hi > >Dushan Mitrovich wrote: >> This question had been posted a week ago, but seems to have disappeared >> along the way. Since I'm still looking for the answer, I'm reposting. >> >> I now know how to create a new initrd.img after modifying its pcitable >> file to include the Initio scsi controller (which runs my scsi CD drive). >> But I don't have a CD burner, so I can't just replace the original >> initrd.img with the modified one. The new initrd.img resides at present >> in the /tmp directory of the computer hard drive's linux partition. >> >> During the first part of the install of SL 4.2, how does one tell the pro- >> cess to look for the new initrd.img not on the install CD, but at a loca- >> tion on the hard drive? Do I need to place a copy of vmlinuz there as >> well? > > You cannot really do that (without modifying the boot CD): but you can > boot firectly from installation kernel and your modified initrd using > either grub (or loadlin if your files are on an FAT partition) from an > installed system. > > Just add these to your bootloader config. > > The main weakness of this method is that it can be used only once (if > you overwrite during installation the partition on which initrd/vmlinuz > and bootloader are and sthg fails in the process) .. > > Instead I would suggest you looking at ddiskit: > > http://people.redhat.com/linville/ddiskit/ > > which allows easy building of additional driver disks which can be used > during installation. Fantastic! Thank you, Jaroslaw, that looks like the easiest way to solve my problem. - Dushan Mitrovich