Re: [expert] LM 7.0 SCSI Install

[Jean-Louis Debert]

John Aldrich wrote:
> THE STOCK KERNEL DOES NOT HAVE SCSI SUPPORT BUILT-IN!!!

Are you making this up ??? It just says that you have
the wrong kernel (or that the install selected the wrong one
because you told it that you didn't have any scsi adapter,
or because it didn't recognize it).

> You HAVE to build SCSI support INTO the kernel, otherwise
> you can't boot off of SCSI. 

This is correct, unless your root device is not scsi.
The best example is the install itself (the root device
is the _ramdisk_).

> You have two choices...have a small IDE drive that you boot
> off of, and don't build-in SCSI support OR recompile your kernel
> and include support for your SCSI controller.

While the small IDE drive will work, it is a bad idea because
you have to make it your _root_ device.
The best thing is always to make your homemade kernel with
only the drivers you actually need.



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Jean-Louis Debert        [EMAIL PROTECTED]
74 Annemasse  France
old Linux fan