Re: dac960 devices on boot-floppies
been there, done that. as far as I can tell, the following things have to
happen in order for the dac960 to be supported:
/dev/rd/* devices on root.bin and base system (/dev/MAKEDEV has this, but the
current entry creates 2048 devices which is unreasonable for a ramdisk image)
dac960 driver in kernel-image (currently a loadable module)
and finally, the difficult one:
dbootstrap/libfdisk/etc must recognize /dev/c0d0 as an installation candidiate
for partition/base install/system install/etc.
since the dac960 has been merged into the kernel as of 2.2.13 (?) I assume the
/dev/rd/* location in /dev has linus's blessing.. do we expect other hardware
of this type to use a similar format for /dev entries?
On Wed, Nov 10, 1999 at 08:29:08PM -0800, George Bonser wrote:
>
> Trouble is that VA Linux ships their systems with Red Hat and the dac960
> is a common RAID option on those boxes. If anyone wants to install Debian
> on such a unit that has a dac960 boot drive, it can be a ROYAL PITA. I
> have been there and done that. We like the VA systems but we use Debian on
> all of our servers so it must be erased and reinstalled. I finally created
> a Slink boot set with dac960 support but it was NOT easy. Until VA ships
> with Debian as an option, I would suggest having DAC960 support or there
> are going to be a lot of people pulling their hair (what's left of it)
> out.
>
>
> On 10 Nov 1999, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
>
> > nf <nf@marginal.net> writes:
> >
> > > on the same note of devices, would it be possible for the makedev people to
> > > provide something like a dac960-tiny, so that /dev/rd/* devices could be
> > > included on the boot-floppies?
> > >
> > > the current entry for dac960 in the makedev /dev/MAKEDEV creates 2048 devices,
> > > which is a little wasteful for a root image.
> > >
> > > i'd think we only would need entries for one controller and two disks (and
> > > their slices) to allow us to install onto this.
> >
> > File a wishlist bug...
> >
> > Is this device supported by the stock Debian/potato kernels?
> >
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