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



On Sun, 29 Nov 1998, Udi Finkelstein wrote:

> The kernel is loaded by LILO by using the BIOS INT13H routines, and this is
> why LILO can boot off a SCSI HD (because the SCSI BIOS provides BIOS INT13H
> support in ROM).
> After the kernel is loaded in memory, it is run.
> Now the question is - who loads the ramdisk? Is it also loaded by LILO using
> the BIOS, placing it in memory, ready to be used by the kernel when it starts
> running, or is it loaded by the kernel, requiring a device driver to access
> the device where the ramdisk is stored?

As I have said before, the kernel loads the ramdisk on PC clone
architectures, mostly because the kernel runs in VM and can access the
full ram, whereas LILO does not know how to do that and has no room to put
the ramdisk into.

see my other postings,

Peter