Comment 6 for bug 295287

Steven,

The take-away here is that the firmware files you need aren't available at boot time, that is, that they don't appear to be in the initrd file. This much you can see by saying "mkdir foo; cd foo; zcat /boot/initrd.img-$(uname -r) | cpio -id" and then looking for the firmware file in foo/lib/firmware.

I have limited experience with initrfamfs tools, so prudence demands I defer to someone with more experience. I don't want to recommend a procedure that will render your server unbootable :)

Kurt