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Re: Booting Linux using AHA2940UW (no IDE), with aic7xxx as modu
On Sun, 29 Nov 1998 03:15:53 +0200 (IST), Evgeny Stambulchik
<fnevgeny@plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il> wrote:
>On 28-Nov-98 Udi Finkelstein wrote:
>
>> Does anyone know if it's possible to boot a SCSI based Linux system with the
>> SCSI driver (aix7xxx.o in my case) compiled as a module? My SCSI card has a
>> BIOS support.
>
>No.
OK. Thanks. Meanwhile I have recompiled the kernel (with aic7xxx.o built in),
and my system is up and running.
Wait, I have just seen Frodo's answer, which is "Yes". The plot thickens...
>> As I have to boot from my SCSI disks, I wonder if I can use the aic7xxx.o
>> driver as a module. I've tried that, but so far, no success. (I've modified
>> the boot ram disk image,
>
>?? Why do you need a RAM disk when booting off a HD?
This is the standard RedHat setup. I believe it allows you to do a few things:
1. Doing fsck on the root partition (I don't think you can fsck a partition
while it's mounted, right?)
2. To have an initial file system before the module is loaded (??! that's what
I want, right?)
>> a. I don't want to reinstall my system for every minor change (like I have
>> to
>> with M$ products)
>
>You call a trivial kernel recompilation "reinstall system"?!
Nope. But putting in the RedHat CD and booting off it, running the whole
installation, IS EXACTLY what I call "reinstall system"!
I could get it to work in one of 2 ways:
1. Recompiling the kernel (which is what I finally did).
2. Reinstalling RedHat, which means doing the Redhat solution (either they
have a special kernel for aic7xxx, or they have a working setup to boot it as
a module).
thanks,
Udi