On Tue, 03 Oct 2000, Magnus Holmberg wrote:
> > This is another problem that refuses to go away. I you boot from scsi,
> > you can forget about using the stock Mandrake kernels, because scsi
> > support is modular, so the kernel doesn't know how to boot because it
> > can't see the scsi module yet.
>
> I think this is wrong. The scsi support doesn't need to be in the
> kernel. It's enough if the modules are in the initrd.
> I thougt "instal-kernel" made a initrd now. (it didn't before)
>
>
> >
> > You just have to keep asking Mandrake to build scsi support directly into
> > their kernels, or roll your own, like I have to do
>
>
> If they should add all scsi support into the kernel it would be to big.
Sorry, list. Looks like I've been a bit silly. I'd got so used to not
using initrd that I didn't even think of that. When you build your own
kernel, the use of initrd seems to be deprecated, according to the help
buttons. Not a problem when I booted from IDE.
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