Thanks! Then, how to pass options to initrd in grub's menu.lst? I mean scsi disks parameters. My scsi disk is not automatically recognized by sarge installation program.
--- Pete Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How could that be possible? I check > > /boot/config-2.4.27-2-386 again, I find : > > > > CONFIG_SCSI=m > > > > You must have re-compiled kernel. > > Not so, I have Sarge running on 8 Debian servers, > all are only SCSI, > moreover they are SCSI Hardware RAID. > The drivers for the SCSI cards are built into the > /initrd.img (man > mkinitrd) file that the kernel reads upon bootup. > The system will boot from the first device as > specified in the BIOS (or > whatever your machine uses instead), this will allow > the initial bootblock > to be read, this then gets the rest of the drivers > etc. for booting from > the initrd.img, and booting continues from there as > normal. > > If you need *any* drivers for your machine to boot, > they need to be > included in the /initrd.img file. > > This is a non-technical description of the process, > I'm sure someone more > knowledgable than me would be more accurrate.. ;-) > > Cheers, > > > > Pete. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
