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



On Sun, 29 Nov 1998, Evgeny Stambulchik wrote:

> On 28-Nov-98 Meir Litmanovich wrote:
> 
> >  You can use RAMDISK for booting and then fire up kernel with
> >  SCSI as module.
> 
> I'm not sure it's possible without the time machine :). In the real life, the
> order is slightly different: first you load a kernel and then, you can create a
> RAM disk. Or, do you, by "fire up kernel", mean loading the SCSI driver module?
> Then anyway, how is the module going to jump onto the RAM disk?

Actually you do not need a time machine, rather a different architecture.
It is possible to 'hard-wire' a filled ramdisk into the kernel but there
is no space to load it into. The system can only access 1M while using the
BIOS (no, VM can't be used here), and the kernel pretty much fills it
already.

Peter