"S. Newhouse" wrote:
> The scsi support is loaded as a module right after boot time.
Sorry, this is _not_ possible, never has been with linux,
with drivers needed at _boot_ time.
For linux to boot you need _at least_ the driver for the
physical device _and_ the filesystem for your root device
to be built into the kernel (_not_ as a module).
I am not making this up, read again the documentation
about kernel modules in the kernel source tree ...
> I have installed several versions of Mandrake on sytems with
> only scsi disks. They work just fine without rebuilding
> the kernel.
It just shows that the install selected a kernel _with_
SCSI support built-in. This will work, but since there are
far less distribution kernels than possible scsi adapters,
there might be _a lot_ of drivers in that kernel, and it
might be a little bloated (not to say anything of possible
autoprobing hangs ...) so it is _always_ a good idea to
re-compile your own kernel after install, so that to have
only drivers you actually use.
As to install itself (which runs under linux too) the root
device is the _ramdisk_ so again, it doesn't need scsi
to boot, even if you have only scsi disks ...
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Jean-Louis Debert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
74 Annemasse France
old Linux fan
