Re: dac960 devices on boot-floppies
nf <nf@marginal.net> writes:
> the kernel is going to grow to a point where having scsi/ide/whatever drivers
> in the kernel isn't going to be feasible, but at this stage of the game i
> think it's much less of a problem to add a 40k driver to the rescue kernel.
>
> one disadvantage of having the dac960 driver as a module and loading it later
> is that you would need more than just the rescue disk to boot the system
> should the kerne become corrupted.
>
> are there any other situations like this that would require modules to be
> loaded? (nfsroot comes to mind, but i'm not too familiar with that)
Yes -- installation via PCMICA floppy for instance.
It requires initrd, which is *not* going to be a feature for potato.
Again, the only solution is a custom rescue/drivers disks for your HBA.
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