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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