I'd love to try that. What exactly is on the floppy, the equivalent of the
initrd.*.img? Or simply put, how would I copy the ramdisk to /boot? :)
On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Jeff Graves wrote:
> If the ramdisk from the floppy works, why not copy it to /boot ?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles Galpin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, July 31, 2000 9:05 PM
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: loading scsi module on boot
>
>
>
> This PC boots fine from a floppy, but I've long since forgotten what
> parameters were given to lilo to do so. I do know it boots off of
> /dev/sda2 which is the root part.
>
> I just got it to boot from LILO on /dev/sda by adding disk/bios
> parameters
> (it has a ide disk as /dev/hda - with no bootable partitions). Now I
> get
> this. It's an old 486 with ISA cards.
>
> loading aha1542 module
> /lib/aha1542.o: invalid parameter parm_io
>
> I have run mkinitrd like so:
>
> [root@bitsy /root]# mkinitrd -f -v /boot/initrd-2.2.14-5.0.img
> 2.2.14-5.0
> Using modules: scsi/aha1542.o
> Using loopback device /dev/loop0
> /sbin/sash -> /tmp/initrd.721/bin/sash
> /sbin/insmod.static -> /tmp/initrd.721/bin/insmod
> /lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/scsi/aha1542.o ->
> /tmp/initrd.721/lib/aha1542.o
> Loading module aha1542 with options io=0x330
>
> A succesful boot (from floppy) logs this:
>
> Jul 31 20:47:23 bitsy kernel: Configuring Adaptec (SCSI-ID 7) at
> IO:330,
> IRQ 10, DMA priority 7
> Jul 31 20:47:23 bitsy kernel: scsi0 : Adaptec 1542
>
> so I don't see why the args would be wrong..
>
> conf.modules:
>
> alias scsi_hostadapter aha1542
> alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
> alias eth0 ne
> alias eth1 ne
> options ne io=0x340,0x300 irq=9,5
> options aha1542 io=0x330
>
>
> How do I tell what options are given to insmod in both cases?
>
> any and all help apreciated.
>
> tia
> charles
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