Re: Bootint big kernels
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.
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Enrique Zanardi ezanardi@ull.es
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