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Re[4]: Booting Linux using AHA2940UW (no IDE), with aic7xxx as modu



Tani Wallach <tani@techunix.technion.ac.il> wrote:

>  On Sun, 29 Nov 1998, Evgeny Stambulchik wrote:
>  > 
>  > So I repeat my question again: where does the file system (its contents, in
>  > particular, the SCSI module) on the RAM disk come from?!
>  > 
>  
>  Lilo STARTS to boot a kernel (aka _bootstraps_) from any (including SCSI)
>  disk BEFORE the kernel itself is in memory. So in the same way LILO can
>  access the kernel image from the disk it can access the initial ramdisk
>  (such as the "initrd" created by mkinitrd) if the file's location is
>  "known" to lilo in advance.

OK, sorry, somehow I missed the initrd option (I was talking about usual RAM
disk). I stand corrected.

Regards,

Evgeny


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