Re: Fw: VIA kernel patch

[Eric W. Biederman]

"Daniel Haglund" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Thanks for your answer.
> 
> I am afraid I can't use 2.4.7. Unless I can find a kernel patch for rtlinux
> for 2.4.7 of course.
> 
> Someone mentioned that a kernel patch is not always necessary. When is it
> necessary?

If you want to use a root filesystem on the harddrive.  It is easy for
linuxBIOS to come up before the harddrive has spun up and is
responding to commands.

I'm not a big fan of harddrives on development boxes so I haven't seen
it too often.  The last time I saw it I manged to network boot the
kernel before the harddrive had spun up.

Eric