On Mon Oct 25 1999 at 09:22, Tom Oehser wrote:
> > and added it to the boot floppy. However, anytime I insmod it, everything
> > just hangs, and never recovers. (atleast not after 15 minutes).
>
> Hmmm... There are users using this module successfully, and I don't have
> one, so I'm at a loss also what is wrong here.
It never did work for me either. No idea why not, even though I tried
and I tried. When the situation got desperate I had to resort to
other means. :(
[Unfortunately, since I changed jobs recently I no longer have access
to that particular box.]
> > that comes with Redhat 6.1, which is 2.2.12. But I was unsucessful. It
> > was unable to mount the root device.
>
> You will need a kernel that supports ramdisks and minix. You'll need to
> rebuild it with those as red-hat probably ships with both disabled.
Getting off topic a little, but just to set the record straight
here...
Ramdisk support is on by default. (It has to be anyway for initrd
disks to work).
Minix support is there as a module.
But for work with tomsrtbt, it seems to make sense to use a
custom-built kernel. Redhat also ships with a basic kernel-BOOT,
which the rpm header describes as:
This package includes a trimmed down version of the Linux kernel.
This kernel is used on the installation boot disks only and should not
be used for an installed system, as many features in this kernel are
turned off because of the size constraints.
IIRC, it has ramdisk support and can be used with an initrd to add the
boot-time drivers you may need. But then it starts to get messy.
Cheers
Tony
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