How do I include disk driver modules in a network installer image?
In building debian-installer for jessie from source, I would like to
include disk driver modules in the network installer image. How might I
accomplish that?
I see that the installer normally loads sata-modules-3.16.0-4-amd64-di
from the mirror, and so I tried copying that file to
/home/user/debian-installer-20150422+deb8u1/build/localudebs/ before
building. But that did not work. Using the resulting installer, I still
cannot see /dev/sda in BusyBox before reaching the disk partitioning
step.
I typically SCP installer and initrd images to a remote server, set the
installer as default and update GRUB via SSH, and then reboot. But if
the installer hangs during network setup, I need to get IPMI access in
order to debug. I would rather add a script to the installer that gives
up after an hour, writes logs to the existing system, and then reboots
to it. But I cannot even begin to do that unless I can mount /dev/sda.
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