On Thu, Jun 11, 1998 at 10:02:21AM -0400, Avery Pennarun wrote: > This is, if I recall, exactly what initrd was made for. Your bootloader > (eg. lilo) loads an initial ramdisk containing all the kernel modules you > might need. An init script on the ramdisk loads the right modules (however > you choose to do that) and then exits; the kernel unmounts the ramdisk and > remounts the "real" rootdisk. > > That way, you can have a kernel without _any_ disk drivers at all (even IDE) > and yet boot from any disk that has a kernel driver. Works like a charm and > avoids all problems with conflicting drivers.
IIRC, with kernel v2.0.33 one can't build the IDE driver as a module. -- Enrique Zanardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
