[rhelv6-list] live media on USB 3 ports

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On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 1:18 PM, Phil Meyer <pmeyer at themeyerfarm.com> wrote:
> The issue is that the USB 3 extensions are handled by the newish xhci-hcd.ko
> driver, which is not placed in the /isolinux/initrd0.img when the Live CDROM
> or DVD is created.
>
> On other platforms, such as Ubuntu, the driver is built into the kernel:
> /isolinux/vmlinuz0
>
> There does not appear to be a method to inject this driver into the Live
> image properly.
>
> When the Live USB device is created, the program simply copies these files
> from the Live CD image from which it is built, and therefore, there is no
> good way to inject a driver into that process, either.
>
> We note that Ubuntu builds the achi drivers into the kernel, where most
> others do not.  This is probably a good reason why they do.
>
> The most correct method for us then, is to build our own kernel to be used
> in the Live media preparations if they are expected to be bootable on USB 3
> ports.

Aside from adding your own custom kernel to a local repo (which you
might already have for the source of the build anyway) I don't know
any other way to do this using livecd-tools. Thanks for the heads up,
I'm using live media for various things and just haven't run into this
issue yet.

John