Linux-Setup Digest #869, Volume #19 Fri, 20 Oct 00 14:13:10 EDT
Contents:
Re: Suggestions in Setting up RH7? (Alex Deucher)
Re: CMI8330 SOUNDCHIP ("Ali")
Re: RedHat can not see hde disk (Alex Deucher)
Re: getting NIC to work in LINUX (Alex Deucher)
Re: now you see it; now you don't ("n")
Re: ISA PnP Modem setup blues (Alex Deucher)
Re: What shoud I use on redhat 7.0 IP-Masquerade or IPCHAINS??? (Alex Deucher)
Re: soundcard drivers for biostar? (Alex Deucher)
Re: CMI8330 SOUNDCHIP (Edward Lee)
Re: CMI8330 SOUNDCHIP ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: redhat 6.2 or 7.0?
Re: Newbie to linux; I screwed up my X, now what? (Dusty Bin)
Re: AMD Athlon Thunderbird and Asus A7V Mobo running Linux???????? (kept)
Multihead and efm/gnome/file management (Alex Deucher)
Can't boot from Aux HD controller ("John B")
Custom install in RH6.2 (Tom Mucha)
initrd and module args? how? ("kenb")
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Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 11:45:14 -0400
From: Alex Deucher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Suggestions in Setting up RH7?
I'd suggest putting most of the capacity into /usr and /home as they are
where most apps and user files are stored. /var stores logs and web and
ftp data by default in RH7. Here is an example :
/ 200MB
/var 500MB
/usr 2000MB
/home 2300MB
Vary this depending on what you plan to use the pc for.
Alex
Francis wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I am going to install RH7 in my computer. I decided to allocate 5GB to
> install RH7. However, I have no experience how to partition the
> system. Is there anyone kindly suggest me how to partition the hd?
>
> Regards,
> Francis
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From: "Ali" <cracker@$$$$redhotant.com>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: CMI8330 SOUNDCHIP
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 16:42:40 +0100
Richard Horton wrote in message ...
>On Fri, 20 Oct 2000 09:39:44 +0200, Dries van Oosten
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Gotzon Berrojalbiz wrote:
>>
>>> I've read the documentation in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/sound and
>>> I've realized that there's no posibility of compiling newer kernel
>>> versions to support this soundcard. I compiled a 2.2.13 kernel for this
>>> but I haven't been able to find the ADLIB options in 2.2.16 and 2.2.17
>>> kernels.
>>
>>This chip is my worst nightmare. My gf's computer has this chipset. First
>>it gave here a lot of trouble under Win98 (random hangups, rundll crashes,
>>etc.). Then when I tried to convince here to use Linux, it would work at
>>all and now (after the bimonthly reinstall of windows), the OS hangs when
>>I try to install the driver.
>>
>>Groeten,
>>Dries
>>
>
>Seconded... I would recommend if it is an onboard card disabling it in
>BIOS and buying a cheep soundblaster card and using that instead.
>My Win98 install now works fine with after abit of swearing, but Linux
>detects it, says it will load the driver, then says driver loader...
>try doing anything and I get driver not loaded... lsmod shows the
>sound driver as loaded, rmmod of the soundcard driver kills my system
>with a string of errors... going to rebuild this weekend so will have
>more info later.
>
>--
>All opinions are my own and are not in any way meant to represent those of
my employer.
>
>Richard Horton.
>
>"Users are like bacteria - each one causing a thousand tiny crises until
the host finally dies..."
I spent ages trying to get this card (onboard) to work using sndconfig
which did work whilst in session then disappeared once rebooted. I
eventually bought a SB128pci, massive improvement, should have done it a
while ago.
Ali
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Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 11:54:30 -0400
From: Alex Deucher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RedHat can not see hde disk
see this Howto:
http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~b6506063/hpt366/
it is specific to the hpt366, but it will work with any ide controller.
>From the Howto:
1.Boot with the installation floppy or CD-ROM supplied with your Linux
distribution. After you have passed the boot
process (there should be a menu or something coming up at this
point), press Alt-F2 to switch to a different virtual
console.
2.There should be a command prompt waiting there. Type in the
following instruction:
# cat /proc/pci
3.You should see lots of information appeared on the screen. Find
something that looks like the sample output shown at the
end of the previous section. You may use Shift-PgUp and Shift-PgDn
to scroll the display.
4.Compute the magic numbers as instructed in the previous section.
5.Reboot. This time when you see the boot prompt, type:
boot: linux ide2=0x????,0x???? ide3=0x????,0x????
What you see and the exact command to type varies from distribution
to distribution. Check your installation manual or
online help to make sure you are giving the right command.
6.This time the kernel should recognize the HPT366 channels and all
the disks attached to them. Install as usual.
7.At the end of installation you should be offered the option of
making Linux directly bootable from the disk or make boot
floppies. I recommend you should have bootable floppies lying
around in case something goes wrong, but whatever you
do, you should modify lilo.conf and add the following line to it:
append="ide2=... ide3=..."
Just like you typed in the boot command prompt. If you do not do it
now, you will have to type it manually each and
every time you boot, otherwise Linux will not load successfully.
Then run lilo.
Rafael wrote:
>
> Great
> Tell me please where during instalation I can add this parameter. And what the
> structure of this parametrs shoud be?
> What motherboard do you have?
>
> Rafael
>
> Tom Ratrie wrote:
>
> > Rafael,
> >
> > I had the same problem on my system...it would not see hde or beyond. But I
> > also noticed, like you, that Mandrake 7.1 installed without a problem. So,
> > I installed Mandrake and found out what the I/O address was for the offboard
> > controller card controlling hde and hdf. In my case it was:
> > IDE2=0xd400,0xd800 IDE3=0xdc00,0xe000
> >
> > Then during the install of RH7 I added these parms during the install and it
> > found hde and hdf without problem. Then I just added these parms to the
> > lilo.conf file in the /etc directory and ran /sbin/lilo to apply them and
> > all is well.
> >
> > Good Luck,
> > Tom
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Rafael - LumesITSupport" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.setup
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 3:22 PM
> > Subject: RedHat can not see hde disk
> >
> > > I can not install RedHat on my hde disk, it can not see it. What to do.
> > > But Windows install without problem and Gentus Linux too. How to force
> > > RedHat to see hde not only hda, hdb, hdc and hdd but also disk from
> > > third and 4 controler.
> > >
> > > Please help me
> > >
> > > Rafael
> > >
> >
> > "Rafael - LumesITSupport" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > > I can not install RedHat on my hde disk, it can not see it. What to do.
> > > But Windows install without problem and Gentus Linux too. How to force
> > > RedHat to see hde not only hda, hdb, hdc and hdd but also disk from
> > > third and 4 controler.
> > >
> > > Please help me
> > >
> > > Rafael
> > >
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Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 12:00:41 -0400
From: Alex Deucher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: getting NIC to work in LINUX
type "sndconfig" to setup your soundcard. for the ethernet card, I
believe the D-link is uses the tulip driver or maybe the dec4x5.
Anyway, go to run linuxconf from the system menu as root and go to the
networking section. there you can specify an adaptor and what driver
you want it to use. reboot and presto...
Alex
cnkruege wrote:
>
> Hi, I have a problem..
>
> I installed redhat 7.0 and had *everything* working perfectly.
> graphics,sound, nic, etc.. but the other day, i booted up and it didnt
> detect my NIC or my soundcard.
> Anyway, i had to format my computer for other reasons, and i reinstalled
>
> everything
> linux still wont pick up my nic or my sound. Anyone know how to setup a
>
> D-LINK dfe-538tx ethernet card? (its on IRQ 10)
> sound card is on IRQ 9
>
> Thanks.
>
> Chris. ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] )
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From: "n" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: now you see it; now you don't
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 00:59:27 +0900
Nope
I am installing , not upgrading.
I think that there is a bug in 7.0 which means my ehternet card is not
detected and therefor the prompts for network configuration do not kick in.
Any help people? Please?
"Matthew Patterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> n wrote:
> >
> > My Red Hat 6.2 CD always prompted me for my network configuration
details
> > during installation.
> >
> > Now it never does. It is the same CD and same computer. What is the
problem?
> > I have tried cleaning the CD again and again. The rest of the
installation
> > goes OK except for entirely skipping the "which packages would you like
to
> > install" and customise X. When I get to the end and it says its ready
to
> > install, no files are ever installed!
> >
> > What is going wrong?
>
> just a thought, but are you telling the installer to do an upgrade?
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Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 12:03:18 -0400
From: Alex Deucher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ISA PnP Modem setup blues
If it is a Winmodem (if it is PCI it probably is) you are out of luck.
Depending on the chipset you may be able to get a binary only driver for
linux. Do a search for win modems and linux to find drivers.
Alex
sCaLLioN wrote:
>
> Hi all:
> i'm trying to setup my PnP ISA modem on RH 6.2 but have been unsuccessful
> till now. First the details- my serial mouse is on COM2 and i want my modem
> to be on COM1. COM1 is disabled from BIOS. Its a dual boot m/c and here is
> what is assigned on NT:
>
> serial 03E8-03EE - IRQ 10 <-- IRQ 10 is what PnP assigns to the modem as
> shown by BIOS during boot
> mouse 02F8 - 02FE - IRQ 3
> aic78xx FC00 - FCFF IRQ 4 <-- this is my scsi controller
> eapci40 E400 - E43F IRQ 4 <-- ensoniq audio PCI - presumably the sound
> card
>
> when i boot to linux i see the following (from /proc/interrupts and
> /proc/ioports)
>
> serial(auto) - 02F8 - 02FF IRQ 3 <-- mouse or modem ??
> serial(auto) - 03E8 - 03EF <--mouse or modem ??
>
> aic7xxx E800 - E8BE IRQ 4<-- is my scsi controller
> es1370 E400 - E43F IRQ 4 <-- presumably sound card
>
> i have no rc.serial or isapnp.conf. this is a new machine and i dunno much
> about linux. My mouse is working of course and sound card is working too i
> guess (since i could play some wav files - is that a correct conclusion ?)
>
> Now i try to do the pnpdump and i do get the modem string in the output. And
> it does not say it is a winmodem either. So i go uncomment some IRQ and IO
> address set and do a isapnp on the conf file after uncommenting ask y. All
> the time it would report something like the following :
>
> Board 1 has Identity 1b ff ff ff ff b1 00 ad 4d: SMM00b1 Serial No -1
> [checksum 1b]
> /etc/isapnp.conf:97 -- Fatal - IO range check attempted while device
> activated
> /etc/isapnp.conf:97 -- Fatal - Error occurred executing request
> '<IORESCHECK> ' ---
>
> Finally the questions:
>
> 1. Does the 2nd line in the isapnp.conf mean my modem is already working ?
> How can i tell if a driver is indeed loaded for my modem ?
>
> 2.How do i distinguish between the two serial(auto) io ranges reported by
> linux- which one is the modem and which one is the mouse ?
>
> 3. How can i say if my modem is a winmodem or not ? its not one of those
> exceedingly small modems. but still i'm not sure. the documentation on the
> manufacturer's website seems to have dropped the product altogether !! Is
> there a shareware to detect this from NT or linux ?
>
> 4. Can i set the modem to an IRQ that does not appear in isapnp.conf like 10
> as PnP wants to have it that way ? Can i set the io range to be other than
> the maximum and minimum as per the isapnp.conf file ?
>
> 5. I have seem some sites advising to disable PnP altogether to get the
> modem to work. Is this true ? If so why ?
>
> 6. Is there anything i'm missing ? What should i do to get it working ?
>
> TIA
> sCaLLioN
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Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 12:06:22 -0400
From: Alex Deucher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What shoud I use on redhat 7.0 IP-Masquerade or IPCHAINS???
IP masquerade uses IPchains. See the IP masq howto.
Alex
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> What shoud I use on redhat 7.0 IP-Masquerade or IPCHAINS???
>
> He is what I am trying to do.
>
> I have one computer with a modem that I use to dail out to my ISP. I
> just setup a network with two computer on it and I will like my other
> computers on the network to see the internet??
>
> If you got this working in redhat 7.0 please email me or if you have a
> comment on the best way to do this please email me
>
> Thanks
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
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Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 12:12:47 -0400
From: Alex Deucher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.os2.multimedia,comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: soundcard drivers for biostar?
There is native support for VIA sound in 2.4 test kernels and in alsa.
Alex
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Greetings!
>
> This mainboard has an on-board sound chip, something I usually
> avoid. I can't get it to make a sound in OS/2 or in Linux.
>
> Anyone got it working?
>
> F.
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> Felmon John Davis
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Union College / Schenectady, NY
> os/2 - ma kauft koi katz em sack
> -----------------------------------------------------------
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From: Edward Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: CMI8330 SOUNDCHIP
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 09:13:25 -0700
Ali wrote:
> Richard Horton wrote in message ...
> >On Fri, 20 Oct 2000 09:39:44 +0200, Dries van Oosten
> ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >>On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Gotzon Berrojalbiz wrote:
> >>
> >>> I've read the documentation in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/sound and
> >>> I've realized that there's no posibility of compiling newer kernel
> >>> versions to support this soundcard. I compiled a 2.2.13 kernel for this
> >>> but I haven't been able to find the ADLIB options in 2.2.16 and 2.2.17
> >>> kernels.
> >>
> >>This chip is my worst nightmare. My gf's computer has this chipset. First
> >>it gave here a lot of trouble under Win98 (random hangups, rundll crashes,
> >>etc.). Then when I tried to convince here to use Linux, it would work at
> >>all and now (after the bimonthly reinstall of windows), the OS hangs when
> >>I try to install the driver.
> >>
> >>Groeten,
> >>Dries
> >>
> >
> >Seconded... I would recommend if it is an onboard card disabling it in
> >BIOS and buying a cheep soundblaster card and using that instead.
> >My Win98 install now works fine with after abit of swearing, but Linux
> >detects it, says it will load the driver, then says driver loader...
> >try doing anything and I get driver not loaded... lsmod shows the
> >sound driver as loaded, rmmod of the soundcard driver kills my system
> >with a string of errors... going to rebuild this weekend so will have
> >more info later.
> >
> >--
> >All opinions are my own and are not in any way meant to represent those of
> my employer.
> >
> >Richard Horton.
> >
> >"Users are like bacteria - each one causing a thousand tiny crises until
> the host finally dies..."
>
> I spent ages trying to get this card (onboard) to work using sndconfig
> which did work whilst in session then disappeared once rebooted. I
> eventually bought a SB128pci, massive improvement, should have done it a
> while ago.
You can just download the lastest drivers snd2217.tgz and pnp2217.tgz from
http://linnix.com.
You can manually install it with:
1a pnpdump & isapnp ...
1b insmod wss io=XXX irq=XXX ...
1c insmod cmi0001 (PNP ID for 8330)
or
2 setpnp
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: CMI8330 SOUNDCHIP
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 16:17:16 GMT
> I spent ages trying to get this card (onboard) to work using
sndconfig
> which did work whilst in session then disappeared once rebooted. I
> eventually bought a SB128pci, massive improvement, should have done it
a
> while ago.
>
> Ali
I agree with this post... I went out and bought a SB512PCI and once
again life was good in the Land of Milk and Honey...
--Dave
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: redhat 6.2 or 7.0?
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 16:30:10 -0000
Stick to redhat 6.2 The 7.0 is real bad, lots of bugs and the glib they
used is non-standard and is going to be only supported by redhat. I tried
7.0 and went right back to good old 6.2
MT wrote:
>
>
>
> You!
>
> I've concidered ordering the Redhat Linux 7.0 cd, but
> i heard, that Redhat 6.2 is better then 7.0... (?) 7.0 soposed
> to have bugs in the X environment and all... and they say,
> that i cant install 6.2 and then select some packages from
> the 7.0 cd... what should i do? I'm working on a i686 work-
> station...
>
>
> tammx
>
> PS! sorry about the mistakes i probably made, my English is'nt
> too good... ;~)
>
>
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From: Dusty Bin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbie to linux; I screwed up my X, now what?
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 17:36:51 +0100
Reply-To: Dusty Bin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, rich
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>What is not obvious is how I fix it.
I am just a newbie too, but I think you just need to install the S3
server file with the appropriate rpm.
Then just link X to it, or run one of the setup utilities, once the
server has been installed.
However, when I playing with the SVGA and S3 servers for my S3 card, I
found there was also an X link in /etc/X11 (which was the active one) -
I think XF86Setup, Xconfigurator and xf86config must set things up
differently?
> I try and uninstall
>the RPM for the Mach64 X server and it reports that it's not there.
I don't see why you need to remove it, surely it can't do anything
unless it's linked.
--
Dusty Bin
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From: kept <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: AMD Athlon Thunderbird and Asus A7V Mobo running Linux????????
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 17:30:06 -0000
just thought i should clear up what happened to me before....i had
forgotten to disable the plug and play bios setting....once i had done
this, i've had no hardware problems except that linux still doesn't detect
my drive thats on the ata100 ide port
kept
kept wrote:
>
> i was able to install suse 6.4 just fine once i turned plug&play off in
> the bios...but i was always able to boot....i don't know what to tell
you,
> but you should provide more info on your setup (ie, where things are
> located in your system) so that people might see the problem there
>
> for the record i've got an a7v&900mhz t-bird
> RB wrote:
> >
> > Can anyone please tell me if they have information relating to the
> > Asus A7V Motherboard & AMD's Athlon Thunderbird 800Mhz processor used
> > together to run Linux?
> >
> > My install of Linux Mandrake 6.0 and 7.0 failed numerous times. It
> > seems to want to start but just as it starts printing out the load
> > sequence/procedure onto the screen at the LILO initial bootup it
> > freezes after about 20 lines. One line I will always remember mentions
> > this persons name.. "...Richard Gooch".
> >
> > I've installed Linux several times before and didn't think I'd still
> > be at trying to install the OS. I figured I'd be onto learning Gnome
> > by now but this is really hanging me out to dry. Can anyone please
> > help me understand if I'm doing anything wrong here?
> >
> > Much thanks in advance for sure if anyone could help me.
> > Rbh
>
>
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Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 13:53:00 -0400
From: Alex Deucher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Multihead and efm/gnome/file management
I'm using Xfree 4.0.1 with Xinerama and multihead and enlightenment
(0.16.5) as a window manager.
Everything works fine with Xinerama, but I would perfer to run in
multihead mode (i.e. NOT Xinerama) however, there are issues with the
second head. I would like to run gnome, but it does not seems to run
too well in multihead mode (works fine in xinerama).
(Xinerama has other issues: no 3d, videos will not play on the second
head)
The only WM i can get to work in multihead is E. Which works ok, but
always complains when I start it on the second head that there is
already a WM running on it (other WM's do this too, but then fail at
that point), it does however start after that. I can start gmc on both
heads separately, but it starts to do strange things and I can't have a
separate setup on each monitor, they have to be identical.
So, my question is, is efm multihead capable? Would it allow me to have
separate setups on each head? Is there any good file management setup
that supports multihead?
I tried efm in the 0.0.0 days, but haven't tried since. Is it dependent
on E0.17, or can I use it with E 0.16?
Thanks,
Alex
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From: "John B" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Can't boot from Aux HD controller
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 17:52:59 GMT
Hello:
I have a working installed 6.3 version of Suse on a second hard
drive (dual boot)that I have been running on the secondary onboard
controller (hdc) booting via floopy/LILO, this configuration has been
working fine. (Win98 on hda1, Suse 6.3 on hdcx) I'm running 2 Maxtor 13G
hd's.
Then I installed an auxiliary HD controller (Promise Ultra 100) and
moved the Linux drive over to the Promise controller, but now I can't boot
the Linux drive , LILO prompt is: LIL-
Can't figure out what the drive designation(s) for the new aux controller
are.
Is there a configuration file I need to change to tell the OS where to boot
from?
Any ideas?
thanx,
John
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From: Tom Mucha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Custom install in RH6.2
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 17:54:39 GMT
I'm trying to figure out how to make my own custome install so I can
recreate the same setup on multiple servers. I was thinking about
writing a custom install scipt in anaconda, but I can't find enough
documents to figure out how it works.
My other idea was to use some sort of imaging program to make a cd and
then be able to copy everything over using a bootable floppy.
Any suggestions?
---===||[Tom Mucha]||===---
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From: "kenb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: initrd and module args? how?
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 10:38:04 -0700
my root filesystem is on a scsi hd. under redhat 6.2 i use initrd to load
the BusLogic module at boot. but, i need to pass an argument to the
BusLogic driver at boot time. how is this done with initrd?
??
thanks,
kenb
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