[Techtalk] failing to build install floppy

[Nils Philippsen]

On Tue, 2002-04-30 at 22:43, Conor Daly wrote:
> Trying to add a module to the radhat bootnet.img boot floppy.  
> I  did the following...
[...]
> and I get a directory 2.4.7-10BOOT containing a bunch of modules.  I add
> the desired module to that directory, removing another one to make space,
> modify initrd/modules/module-info to include the new driver and rebuild 
> the image using
> 
> find 2.4.7-10BOOT | grep .o | cpio -o | gzip -9 > initrd/modules/modules.cgz
> umount initrd
> gzip -c -9 initrd.img > bootnet/initrd.img
> umount bootnet
> 
> I dd that to floppy and reboot but I get messages like 
> 
> going to insmod eexpress.o (path is NULL)
> error 2 reading header: cpio: Bad magic
> 
> for your info. initrd/modules/modules.cgz is a compressed cpio archive
> containing all the modules required for the boot floppy.  Any thoughts on
> what I'm doing wrong?

Maybe the installer's cpio is a just bit picky. You could try to build a
driver disk instead, see http://people.redhat.com/dledford how to do
that.

Nils
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