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RE[2]: Booting Linux using AHA2940UW (no IDE), with aic7xxx as modu



"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.
>  
>  > 
>  > >  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. 

So I repeat my question again: where does the file system (its contents, in
particular, the SCSI module) on the RAM disk come from?!

Regards,

Evgeny


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