Bug#149698: Dell 2650 & Debian boot
#include <hallo.h>
Petter Reinholdtsen wrote on Tue Jun 25, 2002 um 01:03:25PM:
> By default, you can only load modules after the harddrive is
> configured. It is not possible to configure the harddrive before the
> megaraid driver is loaded. This leads to the conclusion that it is
No. You need a prepared floppy with SCSI modules on it.
> impossible to install Debian on Dell PowerEdge 2650 using the normal
> boot floppies. Your expressions quoted above makes me wounder if this
> is intentional or not.
>
> Of course, your suggested solution making special floppies do work,
> but why should it be necessary?
Okay, go and suggest something to drop from the bf2.4 kernel. The thing
is as large as possible. What do you want to throw away? Maybe the
ReiserFS driver? Or Symbios-Logic drivers? I am sure, there are many
people that really, really want this just to make few hundreds of DELL
users happy.
Gruss/Regards,
Eduard.
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