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Re: Booting Linux using AHA2940UW (no IDE), with aic7xxx as modu
hi,
2 years ago I tried Slackware linux on my computer with the same SCSI card with no
IDE devices and I had no problem booting from the disk with LILO, I switched to
RedHat but got it install don a IDE disk so I don't know if it's possible with
RedHat. But I think You shouldn't have a problem...
Bye
Yosi
Evgeny Stambulchik 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.
>
> > 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?
>
> > 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"?!
>
> > b. I want to learn.
>
> It's never too late :)
>
> > I understand that LILO loads the kernel through the AHA2940 BIOS INT13
> > support, but the question is: How is the ramdisk loaded? Is it loaded by the
> > kernel driver (in which case the module must be compiled into the kernel),
> > or
> > is the ramdisk also loaded by the BIOS (in which case, it should be possible
> > to load the boot device driver as a module).
>
> Once kernel is loaded, BIOS is not used at all.
>
> Regards,
>
> Evgeny
>
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