wow! I had no idea you could mount the thing. Sure enough copying over
that initrd.img works fine. Funny how I couldn't get mkinitrd to make a
good one.
Oh well. All this has got me thinking I'd be best off sliming down the
kernel for this lil ol 486/32mb machine anyway :)
But that was fun. Thanks for the tip.
charles
On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Jeff Graves wrote:
> On the floppy, under the /boot directory there should be a
> initrd.img file. Simply copy it to your /boot on your hard drive and
> name it whatever lilo points to. I was having trouble booting a SCSI
> disk with the ramdisk on the hard drive after an install but luckily
> had made a boot disk. So I booted with the floppy, copied the
> initrd.img file to /boot and renamed it, rebooted and boom, booted
> no problem.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles Galpin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2000 12:48 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: loading scsi module on boot
>
>
> I'd love to try that. What exactly is on the floppy, the equivalent
> of the
> initrd.*.img? Or simply put, how would I copy the ramdisk to /boot?
> :)
>
> On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Jeff Graves wrote:
>
> > If the ramdisk from the floppy works, why not copy it to /boot ?
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Charles Galpin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Monday, July 31, 2000 9:05 PM
> > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> > Subject: loading scsi module on boot
> >
> >
> >
> > This PC boots fine from a floppy, but I've long since forgotten
> what
> > parameters were given to lilo to do so. I do know it boots off of
> > /dev/sda2 which is the root part.
> >
> > I just got it to boot from LILO on /dev/sda by adding disk/bios
> > parameters
> > (it has a ide disk as /dev/hda - with no bootable partitions). Now
> I
> > get
> > this. It's an old 486 with ISA cards.
> >
> > loading aha1542 module
> > /lib/aha1542.o: invalid parameter parm_io
> >
> > I have run mkinitrd like so:
> >
> > [root@bitsy /root]# mkinitrd -f -v /boot/initrd-2.2.14-5.0.img
> > 2.2.14-5.0
> > Using modules: scsi/aha1542.o
> > Using loopback device /dev/loop0
> > /sbin/sash -> /tmp/initrd.721/bin/sash
> > /sbin/insmod.static -> /tmp/initrd.721/bin/insmod
> > /lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/scsi/aha1542.o ->
> > /tmp/initrd.721/lib/aha1542.o
> > Loading module aha1542 with options io=0x330
> >
> > A succesful boot (from floppy) logs this:
> >
> > Jul 31 20:47:23 bitsy kernel: Configuring Adaptec (SCSI-ID 7) at
> > IO:330,
> > IRQ 10, DMA priority 7
> > Jul 31 20:47:23 bitsy kernel: scsi0 : Adaptec 1542
> >
> > so I don't see why the args would be wrong..
> >
> > conf.modules:
> >
> > alias scsi_hostadapter aha1542
> > alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
> > alias eth0 ne
> > alias eth1 ne
> > options ne io=0x340,0x300 irq=9,5
> > options aha1542 io=0x330
> >
> >
> > How do I tell what options are given to insmod in both cases?
> >
> > any and all help apreciated.
> >
> > tia
> > charles
>
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