Re: booting from a raid0 device.
On Fri, Apr 16, 1999 at 11:03:26AM -0400, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> Enrique Zanardi <ezanardi@ull.es> writes:
>
> [...]
> "floppy-booted" installations
> one rescue disk with:
> - "bare bones" kernel: no IDE, no SCSI, just floppy
> - initrd with IDE
> (optional) one rescue disk with:
> - "bare bones" kernel
> - initrd with some drivers for some popular SCSI cards
> several drivers disks (not all users will have to install all the
> disks, just those with modules that they need):
> - (optional) IDE modules
> - SCSI modules
> - PCMCIA modules
> - network modules
> ...
> [...]
>
> I see a few cons (it's more complex than what we have now, user can't
> replace kernel and modules without changing the inird image, ...) but it
> looks like a good way to fix our space constraints, and IMO it scales better
> and it's easier to use than the "boot & root floppies" approach.
> Comments?
>
> I like it overall. Just one comment: why do we need "several" drivers
> disks? Can't everything fit onto just two drivers disks? Put the
> most common drivers on the first one, the less common ones on the
> second. Otherwise, I'd have to download and write out more disks,
> i.e., one for SCSI card, one for network, one for framebuffer, one for
> ..., which seems wasteful.
I didn't want to imply one drivers disk for each module category, sorry
if that wasn't clear. I guess two drivers disks will be enough.
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Enrique Zanardi ezanardi@ull.es
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