Re: How to rebuild the kernel for the network install

[Pete Travis]

Bash will expand $(inane -r) for you - you can pass it any kernel you have
headers installed for.

I wanted to jump in to suggest you reconsider motherboard driven fakeraid.
The mainboard becomes a single point of failure, and replacing it or
migrating the array can be problematic, especially with different chipset
revisions or BIOS versions.

I recommend you set up a mdadm array.  Drivers are in the kernel,
documentation is profuse, and management is fairly simple once you get the
hang of it. The graphical installer can even do it for you.  Use the array
for /home and possibly /etc and /var, and keep your root filesystem separate
from your important data.

Hope this helps,

Pete
On Sep 28, 2011 10:24 AM, "Joshua C."  wrote:
> 2011/9/28 Phil Meyer :
> > On 09/28/2011 02:57 AM, Joshua C. wrote:
> > > As the title says, I'd like to reinstall fedora 15 with the netinstall
> > > image because it's about 100mb (kernel and initrd) instead of the
> > > install dvds. My problem is that those files located in

http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/15/Fedora/x86_64...
> > > have long been outdated. As you can see the kernel is only 3.7mb and
> > > the initrd almost 94mb. How to rebuild them from the latest
> > > kernel-2.6.40.4-6.fc15?
> > >
> > > --joshua
> >
> > yum install dracut-network
> >
> > use dracut (like mkinitrd) # dracut initrd.img `uname -r`
> >
> > That's it.
> >
> > Yoy can PXE boot that, or roll it up into a bootable iso, which is what
> > netboot is.
> >
> > But why not just use the existing iso?  easier
> > Good Luck!
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> I want to reinstall fedora on a intel fake-raid1 which is practically
> a software raid. In order to save all the config headaches I want to
> use a f16-livecd and rebuild the netinstall image with the kernel for
> f15 (kernel-2.6.40.4-6.fc15) and just boot from it. So from your
> example '# dracut initrd.img `uname -r' I think `uname -r` will return
> the running f16 kernel, not the one I want to use. Do I need the
> kernel-devel-package for this?
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