On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 08:02:45PM -0500, Lloyd Zusman wrote: ... > Well, I guess I'll have to go back to the drawing board to > figure out how to make a usable boot floppy ... or perhaps a > boot CD ... I really don't care which one I have, as long as > I have _some_ source for a boot record besides my hard disk.
try Timo's rescue CD (debian based): http://rescuecd.sourceforge.net/download.html If I'm not mistaken his bootimage uses initrd, and does some autodetection of drives. If the autodetection fails, it's possible to get a shell early in the boot process and load the needed scsi modules. I've never done that so I don't really know how it works, but I expect "modprobe driver-for-your-scsi-card" would suffice. > I guess I'm going to have to gain the knowledge necessary for > using initrd during the process of building a boot disk/CD, > since mkboot and the yard suite are currently at the limits > of my knowledge. > > Without my Linux box working for more than a few minutes > at a time, I have at best intermittent internet access, so > could someone point me to a step-by-step cookbook that > describes how to make a bootable floppy or CD, when initrd is > needed to load added SCSI modules? Also, something that > tells me how to find out which SCSI modules I need, and which > of these are and aren't compiled into my kernel would also be > useful. I have the standard, unmodified 2.4.20-686-smp kernel, > by the way. Look in /boot/config-2.4.20-686-smp, it lists all the config params used to compile that kernel. Look for scsi-generic and scsi-disk and the apropriate module for your scsi card. -- groetjes, carel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
