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



> > 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. 

You may want to use "mkinitrd", it makes initial ramdisk for you. Just
write "alias scsi_hostadapter aic7xxx" in /etc/conf.modules. You should
have loopback devices to be enabled (not network loopback, module loop).

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