Update kernel on old RH install cd

From: Peter Eisch (peter_at_boku.net)
Date: 09/25/04

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    Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 14:43:34 -0500

    I'm working from a RH7.3 framework where I have an install customized where
    I can bootstrap systems reasonably quickly. Thus, the recovery process for
    a failed system is to just do a fresh install.

    My problem comes from having to install on newer systems with newer
    controllers. I've patched/updated drivers before, but I'm sick of that. I
    want to replace the BOOT kernel on the cdrom with one that has current
    drivers (SATA, SATA-R, U320's, etc support). (Old: 2.4.20-28.7; current
    2.4.27)

    I have a boot.img that boots swell to where the kickstart appears to format
    / and /boot, reads the pkglist and wants to lay them down on disk, but it
    errors with "Disk Space":
     
      You don't appear to have enough disk
      space to install the packages you've
      selected. You need more space on the
      following filesystems:

      Mount Point Space Needed
      / 354 M

                       OK

    I have not modified stage2.img other than to update the modules.cgz with
    ones for this kernel. From here I see a couple potential issues:

    1) Is it that the ld.so.cache on the stage2.img is not in sync with this
    kernel? I haven't changed any of the libs on here, so I'm not sure why the
    lib cache would be different. Should that get rebuilt by the runtime
    anyway?

    2) Modutils on stage2 is 2.4.14. Is it likely that even though I have the
    modules for this kernel, the modutils won't load them up? This doesn't seem
    to make sense as the disk gets partitioned and formatted and I'm testing on
    an IDE system which still has the driver compiled in the kernel. It's just
    the ext3 driver, nothing fancy.

    3) Does anaconda not like my new kernel? It doesn't seem to be the issue
    as it's seeing the rpms and calculating a reasonable size.

    4) mkfs.ext3 might not be agreeing with the kernel driver?

    What detail am I missing?

    Thanks for reading,

    peter

     

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