Re: Bug#36749: boot floppies hang. kernel image problems
On Tue, May 04, 1999 at 05:16:42PM -0700, David Bristel wrote:
> In addition to my last message, I am wondering, since we already have mounted
> the image off the floppy/CD anyway, if we can move some of these drivers into
> modules, and not load them automatically. This would eliminate the problem
> with ONE driver killing the boot process and makeing installation impossible on
> some systems. I know it's no big deal to say, "AHA-7XXX" for my choice of SCSI
> controllers. If we move this BEFORE the HD partitioning, it would eliminate
> many problems(Redhat does it this way if I remember correctly).
The best way to solve the problem is to introduce initrd. Has anyone been
looking into this recently? What are the difficulties that you've encountered
if any?
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