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? -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
