On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 12:22:20PM +0200, Otto Wyss wrote: | Does anyone know if the fs in Grub allows the kernel to load his | necessary fs as modules? I.e. if Grub contains a an ext2 fs, can the | kernel load modules from this file system even if the ext2 fs isn't | compiled into the kernel? | | Or since the fs in Grub probably also needs the corresponding drivers | for the drive (i.e. SCSI), does the kernel still need the same drivers | built in?
What exactly is your setup and what are you trying to do? Concrete questions are often clearer than abstract ones, and thus eaiser to answer. Grub and the kernel are 2 separate things. Grub must have support for a particular filesystem in order for it to read the stage2, menu.lst and kernel from. Grub doesn't care what components the kernel has builtin or as modules. If the kernel is on a SCSI disk, then grub needs to be able to read the SCSI disk to load the kernel. I don't know if grub can do this now, or what the issues are because I have never had a SCSI disk. If you want your kernel to be able to read files from a SCSI disk, then it must have the necessary drivers available -- either comiled in or as modules on a disk that can be read without the module already loaded (you don't want a Catch 22 where you need the SCSI driver to read the disk inorder to load the SCSI driver in order to read ...). I'm sure it would be just fine if you put the kernel and its modules on an IDE disk and told grub to load the kernel from there and that the root partition is on the SCSI disk. Maybe someone else with more SCSI experience can provide better information, or maybe the grub docs will tell (http://www.gnu.org/software/grub). HTH, -D
