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Re: Booting Linux using AHA2940UW (no IDE), with aic7xxx as modu
On Sun, 29 Nov 1998 10:07:44 +0200 (IST), "Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo"
<frodo@sharat.co.il> 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.
>
>Wrong. Surely yes.
Thanks, this is what I hoped.
>> > 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?
>
>Exacttly because of this. You need initial RAM disk when you have root
>filesystem to be supported by kernel module.
>
>You may want to use "mkinitrd", it makes initial ramdisk for you. Just
I don't need "mkinitrd" as I'm modifying an existing ramdisk. I uncompressed
the ramdisk image into /tmp, and mounted it using the loop device.
what I was done, I simply umounted it, compressed it, copied it where it
should, and re-ran LILO with the proper chroot parameter.
>write "alias scsi_hostadapter aic7xxx" in /etc/conf.modules. You should
>have loopback devices to be enabled (not network loopback, module loop).
I had an "alias scsi_hostadapter aha152x" on my old system, but this was on
/etc/conf.modules on my real root partition (it was IDE at the time). I really
didn't need SCSI to boot then.
The current ramdisk boot image I have now, doesn't have /etc/conf.modules at
all, if I remember correctly. I'll try adding that and see if it helps.