On Tue, Feb 01, 2000 at 07:58:53PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > Tapio Lehtonen <tale@iki.fi> writes: > > > What must be compiled in to the kernel that replaces the linux in rescue disk? The Installation manual in chapter Technical Information on the boot Floppies says > > o Initial RAM disk > > o FAT, minix and EXT2 filesystems > > o ELF executables > > but on the rescue disk the scripts/rescue/messages/C/readme.txt file says > > Configure the kernel with the following facilities linked in: initrd, > > ramdisk, loop, msdos, fat, elf, ext2fs, procfs. > > > > Which is correct? RAMdisk, initrd, elf, ext2fs, procfs, msdos, fat is needed compiled in. CONFIG_SYSCTL and CONFIG_UNIX are needed as well. Apart from that only the block device and fs drivers needed to boot and to access the drivers modules: - to install drivers from floppy: floppy disk and msdos - to install drivers from cd: (ide or scsi-cd+scsi-lowlevel driver) and iso9660 fs. Nils -- Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time. To be specific the "Plug" almost always works. --unknown source
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