On Thursday 20 March 2003 03:38 pm, Bryan Whitehead wrote: > Jack Coates wrote: > > On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 11:20, Bryan Whitehead wrote: > > ... > > > >>After finally getting 9.0 installed (5 hours later), I noted that there > >>is much less scsi drivers built for the BOOT kernel then other kernels. > >>Why is this? Can't stage2 just have every kernel module built for > >>completeness? What the hell is the point of including the mpt drivers in > >>all the other kernels except the install kernel? > > > > IIRC, El Torito requires that you fit everything you intend to boot with > > into a floppy disk image, not to exceed 2M. All the SCSI drivers in > > 2.4.19 == 1.3M. That's not much room for everything else. > > Yea, but we don't need to worry about scsi driver till stage2. So this > doesn't matter. stage1 just needs cdrom or network drivers. (of course > your screwed if you have a new scsi card with a cdrom on it). or if you normally boot from scsi and not IDE, if I understand correctly.
> > Basically it would be nice if one could have a "mkstage1" command, and a > stage2 that has all the drivers. > > >>Is there an easier way? (I sure hope I just did it the wrong/hard way) > > > > Not that I know of... I've heard of a number of different workarounds, > > but none of them look any easier than what you did :-) > > > >>Is this fixed in mdk9.1? > > > > not likely. > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Linux counter number 167806
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