Re: new kernel/boot builders
On Wed, 23 Oct 1996, Craig Sanders wrote:
>
> On Tue, 22 Oct 1996, Mike Neuffer wrote:
>
> > Otherwise you will not be able to insmod the eata-dma, aic7xxx,
> > ncr53c8xx, advansys or BusLogic drivers.
>
> speaking of ncr53c8xx, i discovered yesterday that /etc/init.d/boot runs
> fsck BEFORE loading modules.
>
> Which means that on a system such as I have at home (IDE boot drive,
> plus SCSI drives for data & swap), compiling the scsi driver as a module
> prevents the system from booting. when fsck can't find the devices for
> the scsi mounts, it runs sulogin
>
> i fixed it by hacking /etc/init.d/boot and moving the section which
> loaded the modules to be just before the fsck. I expect that my hack
> will be trashed the next time i do an upgrade which overwrites the boot
> script.
Yes, we also had some problems with this, hacked the script and
now always compile in the scsi drivers.
Mike
Michael Neuffer i-Connect.Net, a Division of iConnect Corp.
mike@i-Connect.Net 14355 SW Allen Blvd., Suite 140
503.677.2900 Beaverton, OR 97008
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