Re: why sarge's default kernel does not support scsi disk?
Thanks! Then, how to pass options to initrd in grub's
menu.lst? I mean scsi disks parameters. My scsi disk
is not automatically recognized by sarge installation
program.
--- Pete Clarke <pete@devilincarnate.eclipse.co.uk>
wrote:
> > How could that be possible? I check
> > /boot/config-2.4.27-2-386 again, I find :
> >
> > CONFIG_SCSI=m
> >
> > You must have re-compiled kernel.
>
> Not so, I have Sarge running on 8 Debian servers,
> all are only SCSI,
> moreover they are SCSI Hardware RAID.
> The drivers for the SCSI cards are built into the
> /initrd.img (man
> mkinitrd) file that the kernel reads upon bootup.
> The system will boot from the first device as
> specified in the BIOS (or
> whatever your machine uses instead), this will allow
> the initial bootblock
> to be read, this then gets the rest of the drivers
> etc. for booting from
> the initrd.img, and booting continues from there as
> normal.
>
> If you need *any* drivers for your machine to boot,
> they need to be
> included in the /initrd.img file.
>
> This is a non-technical description of the process,
> I'm sure someone more
> knowledgable than me would be more accurrate.. ;-)
>
> Cheers,
>
>
>
> Pete.
>
>
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