On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Adam Shand wrote:
> > It is perfectly possible to say "m" to all types of disks and all
> > filesystems. But then your kernel will not be able to access the
> > disk. Your boot disk must be built into your kernel.
>
> i thought initrd solved that problem by allowing modules to be loaded into
> a ram disk before the disk was accessible (because grub/lilo directly
> support reading the initrd fiel from the disk).
>
> am i wrong? in which case which modules have to be built in for initrd
> to work? i had a similar problem when i first moved to 2.4 kernels and it
> turned out to be a not recent enough modutils.
>
> all i did was take the .config from kernel-image-2.4.14 copy it into the
> new src tree of 2.4.16 and run "make oldconfig".
>
> i *should* have everything i need, and i've confirmed via diff that it
> doesn't look significantly different from my old 2.4.14 config file.
But in that case your initrd (or the 2nd floppy with the modules) will
need to contain the modules compatible with your new kernel too.
Save yourself the headache and compile support for IDE and ext2fs into
your kernel!
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