Re: driverless centos8

thank you.  i'm hoping to see an example of actually adding a driver.
neither that nor several other articles i've read show an example.  with
each boot cycle being several minutes i was hoping to skip some of the
trial and error treadmill.


On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 10:11 AM gerry <[email protected]> wrote:

> Does this help?
>
> https://fedoramagazine.org/initramfs-dracut-and-the-dracut-emergency-shell/
>
>
> On Tue, 28 Jul 2020, gregrwm wrote:
> > i've upgraded a server from centos7 to centos8, but centos8 seems to
> have removed the drivers
> > for the discs and ethernet.  i can still boot into centos7 but when i
> boot into centos8 it
> > doesn't get past the dracut shell as it can't find the root filesystem.
> > perhaps the drivers needed might be
> > sata_nv
> > pata_acpi
> > pata_amd
> > tg3
> > forcedeth
> > i tried to include a dud at install time but the installer still said no
> discs found.
> >
> > i'm thinking if i get the right drivers it might work to just include
> them in the upgraded
> > system.  it seems i might find them somewhere at elrepo, somehow include
> them in
> > /etc/dracut.conf.d, and somehow run dracut but i've yet to see an actual
> example, anyone have
> > an example handy?



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