On 2/27/06, Uwe Thiem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
If the BIOS doesn't see the SATA drives (and therefore, grub can't see them), and you don't have an IDE to use as a boot device, would it be possible to create an initrd/initramfs on a floppy for booting purposes?
Just wondering...
-Hani
On 27 February 2006 18:48, Richard Fish wrote:
> On 2/27/06, Uwe Thiem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > If you want to boot from a device your kernel has no built-in driver for
> > use an initrd (for the nit-pickers: initramfs) generated by genkernel.
> > ;-)
>
> This won't help. Grub uses BIOS calls to access the disk
> drives...kerrnel drivers/initrd doesn't matter.
If the BIOS doesn't see the SATA drives (and therefore, grub can't see them), and you don't have an IDE to use as a boot device, would it be possible to create an initrd/initramfs on a floppy for booting purposes?
Just wondering...
-Hani
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