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 <gsker at skerbitz.org> 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? -- this concludes test 42 of big bang inflation dynamics. in the advent of an actual universe, further instructions will be provided. 000000000000000000000042 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20200728/949c11f3/attachment.htm>