On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 11:20, Bryan Whitehead wrote: ... > After finally getting 9.0 installed (5 hours later), I noted that there > is much less scsi drivers built for the BOOT kernel then other kernels. > Why is this? Can't stage2 just have every kernel module built for > completeness? What the hell is the point of including the mpt drivers in > all the other kernels except the install kernel? >
IIRC, El Torito requires that you fit everything you intend to boot with into a floppy disk image, not to exceed 2M. All the SCSI drivers in 2.4.19 == 1.3M. That's not much room for everything else. > Is there an easier way? (I sure hope I just did it the wrong/hard way) > Not that I know of... I've heard of a number of different workarounds, but none of them look any easier than what you did :-) > Is this fixed in mdk9.1? not likely. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture...
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