[solved] load driver modules from inside a %pre script

On 12/07/2011 20:39, "Paul Thomas" <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>	1. On some systems (e.g. cciss), the drive appears as sda, on others it
>gets bumped to sdb because the main disk is sda. Is there some trick to
>finding the device name for a usb stick?

I had to resort to searching the devices as described here:
http://www.oscarc.net/blog/2009/04/kickstart-installs-from-a-usb-drive/

>	2. If the user doesn't have to USB drive inserted initially, I have to
>present a warning and ask them to insert it ­ but by this time, there is
>no usb_storage driver so it doesn't appear as a drive. Modprobe does
>nothing.

I either fixed this by upgrading from EL5.4 to EL5.6, or by passing
"driverload=usb-storage" to the kernel via isolinux.cfg. Not sure which
because I made both changes at once (I suspect it was the later though).

P.




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