Bug#63132: Drivers not available if no partition available
Hi.
at Fri, 28 Apr 2000 10:09:35 +1200,
Mark van Walraven <markv@wave.co.nz> writes:
> Hi Patrik,
>
> On Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 12:59:44PM +0200, Patrik Rak wrote:
> > This makes the install process rather complicated in case you need the
> > drivers themself to make any partition available. For example, I have met
> > with Compaq servers that have only the SMART2 disk array inside.
>
> The SMART2 driver is compiled into the kernel for the "compact"
> flavour of boot-floppies. In the "compact" sub-section (under the
> "Layout" section), the top-level README.txt refers the reader to
> images-1.44/compact/README.txt, which says:
>
> [...] includes support for PCI SCSI and IDE controllers,
> and for some PCI RAID and network controllers.
>
> I'll amend this to:
>
> [...] includes support for PCI SCSI and IDE controllers,
> some PCI RAID controllers (including DAC960 and SMART2)
> and some network controllers.
>
> In general, any target device supported by Linux should be covered
> by at least one of the boot-floppies flavours.
The file is documentation/README-compact, and the patch for
the change above is here:
--- README-compact.orig Tue May 2 09:19:17 2000
+++ README-compact Tue May 2 11:37:53 2000
@@ -7,9 +7,11 @@
ARCnet, and other devices which may be supported by the vanilla
kernel.
-It includes support for PCI SCSI and IDE controllers, and for some PCI
-RAID and network controllers. If you do not have SCSI, you might want
-to try the 'idepci' flavor.
+It includes support for PCI SCSI and IDE controllers,
+some PCI RAID controllers (including DAC960 and SMART2)
+and some network controllers.
+
+If you do not have SCSI, you might want to try the 'idepci' flavor.
In terms of installation, this set of floppies should work just as well
as the regular ones. However, once your system is installed, you may
I myself do not commit this yet. I hope some one can review this.
--
Taketoshi Sano: <kgh12351@nifty.ne.jp>
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