Oracle® Virtual Networking Host Drivers for Oracle Linux and Oracle VM Installation and Boot Guide

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Updated: July 2016
 
 

Append the Driver Disk (Oracle Linux 6)

For Oracle Linux 6, Update 4 OS, you can append the PXE label directly to the driver disk. However, for Oracle Linux 5, Update 9, you need to manually make a customer driver disk.

  • (Oracle Linux 6) To append the host drivers to the driver disk, create a PXE label or settings on PXE server and install on the network as follows:

    In this example, you are appending Red Hat-based driver disk (2.6.32-358.el6) with base OS initrd.

    Label    OEL6u4-LX507
    
        Kernel    OEL6u4-vmlinuz
    
        append    initrd=OEL6u4-initrd.img,OEL6u4-xsigo-rhdd-2.6.32-358.el6.x86_64-5.0.7.LX-x86_64.img network