Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 12:50:35PM +0100, Johan Groth wrote: > > Greetings, > > I'm an old Red Hatter that have resently converted to Debian (or rather > > Stormix Linux 2000 Deluxe). I've upgraded my system to woody to get > X4.0.2. I > > also installed modutils 2.4.2 so I can compile a 2.4.2 kernel. And here is > my > > problem that I hope someone on this list can help me with. > > > > I boot Linux from a SCSI HD which means that either SCSI support must be > > compiled into the kernel or you use an initrd-image and have SCSI support > > compiled as modules. > > if your going to compile your own kernel why on earth would you want > to subject yourself to the extra trouble of using the initrd kludge to > bootstrap your system?? the reason redhat does this is so the default > kernel is not bloated with every scsi driver in the kernel (whether > that is really that much of an advantage is debatable) when you custom > compile a kernel you can include only the scsi driver you need and > compile it right into the kernel, not as a module. this is simpler > and cleaner. > > compiling it as a module gives you zero benifit, you won't ever be > able to remove the module from the running kernel since you would > instantly lose access to the root (and all other) filesystems.
I agree that having SCSI compiled as a module gives me no benefits but I still want to do an initrd-image. Your suggestion, which I appreciate very much, does not solve my problem; it goes around it. Thanks for your reply though, Johan -- Johan Groth (xghjn) ! Tel. mobil: 0703 - 24 25 27 Cell Network ! Kontoret: 054 - 14 25 27 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ! Bofors: 0586 - 820 14 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
