> So that is the 3rd person to claim that megaraid.o does not work. Atleast
> the one available on toms.net's website. Tom, any chance of rebuilding it
> or something? I know it was a late add.. perhaps it was built differently
> or something.
There is nothing I can really do. When building a kernel and modules, I
just run the "make menuconfig" script just like anyone else, and with the
AMI Megaraid module I have a choice of "Yes" or "No". Not having such a
card, there isn't much debugging I can do. If someone can build one that
does work, and tell me what is different, I'll be glad to fix it, though.
It is just that I am programming in a language where the only key word is
the space bar, which toggles the AMI Megaraid support between "Yes" and
"No". Try using a 2.2.13 kernel with it compiled in, or something.
> > 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.
>
> What does it take to make a tomsrtbt use an initrd?.. let's say I wanted
> the minix.o (or whatever it's called) loaded.
It is easy to make a tomsrtbt use an initrd for _anything BUT_ minix.o.
The filesystem of the root filesystem for tomsrtbt IS minix, so it would
NEVER work, unless you change buildit.s to use ext2fs instead of minix and
then what is the point anyway? Given having minix and initrd in the
kernel, initrd is easy, just change the lilo.conf to point to it and
create a linuxrc.
Look the EASIEST way, in my opinion, is to _build yourself a kernel_, with
support enabled for what you need, and only what you need, and delete and
forget all the modules. It is certainly MUCH easier to build a kernel
with minix and megaraid and whatever else you want, might as well make it
2.2.13, and slap it onto tomsrtbt, than it is to mess with initrd or with
changing the root filesystem or adding modules and getting them to work
with differing kernel versions.
I guess I'm confused, is there something more difficult than I think there
is about just building a different kernel and slapping it onto tomsrtbt?
-Tom
