Re: Recovery from bad kernel

[Aidan Delaney <adelaney@cs.may.ie>]

Interacting with IPL worked perfectly and the system was recovered in an 
astounding 5 minutes.  My system is a 9000 A-class 180C and what I was trying 
to do is reduce the kernel size from the stock 3.5MB.  The kernel I compiled 
was 2.5MB and that was obviously missing drivers.  My desktop IDE box kernel 
is 762K.  Is a large kernel just a fact of life when dealing with SCSI 
devices or am I just not familiar enough with the hardware yet?  This server 
is to be used (by a colleague) as a server for a distributed computing 
application on a LAN, so these kind of optimisations may help my colleague 
obtaining results quicker.

Thanks,
Aidan