On Thu, Jun 11, 1998 at 06:10:16PM -0500, Martin Alonso Soto Jacome wrote:
> Steve Dunham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > The only isapnp devices I know of are audio. Are there any SCSI or
> > enet devices? (If so a table would be necessary as they are discovered.)
>
> Yes, a lot of modern soundc
Previously Steve Dunham wrote:
> The only isapnp devices I know of are audio. Are there any SCSI or
> enet devices? (If so a table would be necessary as they are discovered.)
Yes, my adaptec 152x card is PnP. hint: don't use isapnp after booting
from a PnP scsi-card!
Wichert.
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Steve Dunham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The only isapnp devices I know of are audio. Are there any SCSI or
> enet devices? (If so a table would be necessary as they are discovered.)
Yes, a lot of modern soundcards include an IDE controller, that is usually
configured with PnP. Also, my curre
Enrique Zanardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Thu, Jun 11, 1998 at 11:45:56AM -0500, Martin Alonso Soto Jacome wrote:
> > Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > I have wondered why we didn't try this once the kernel supported initrd.
> > > To be honest I haven't figured out yet how to do
Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, Enrique Zanardi wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 11, 1998 at 09:41:03AM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> > > The problem is that the Debian installation kernel tries to be all things
> > > to all people. As there are machines that boot from SCSI d
On Thu, Jun 11, 1998 at 10:02:21AM -0400, Avery Pennarun wrote:
> This is, if I recall, exactly what initrd was made for. Your bootloader
> (eg. lilo) loads an initial ramdisk containing all the kernel modules you
> might need. An init script on the ramdisk loads the right modules (however
> you
On Thu, Jun 11, 1998 at 09:41:03AM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> The problem is that the Debian installation kernel tries to be all things
> to all people. As there are machines that boot from SCSI drives, it was
> necessary to have all the scsi controlers "built in" to the kernel, hense
> its larg
On Thu, Jun 11, 1998 at 11:45:56AM -0500, Martin Alonso Soto Jacome wrote:
> Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I have wondered why we didn't try this once the kernel supported initrd.
> > To be honest I haven't figured out yet how to do the device selection,
> > other than going through a
Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have wondered why we didn't try this once the kernel supported initrd.
> To be honest I haven't figured out yet how to do the device selection,
> other than going through a list of drivers, trying to insmod each one
> until you are successful.
Wouldn't P
On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, Enrique Zanardi wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 11, 1998 at 09:41:03AM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> > The problem is that the Debian installation kernel tries to be all things
> > to all people. As there are machines that boot from SCSI drives, it was
> > necessary to have all the scsi c
On Fri, Jun 12, 1998 at 12:25:59AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 11, 1998 at 03:13:37PM +0100, Enrique Zanardi wrote:
> > Using initrd, our default kernel may be reduced to half its current size,
> > as all those different controllers may be built as modules and only the
> > required o
On Thu, Jun 11, 1998 at 03:13:37PM +0100, Enrique Zanardi wrote:
> Using initrd, our default kernel may be reduced to half its current size,
> as all those different controllers may be built as modules and only the
> required ones will be loaded at boot time. That will save our users a few
> hundre
On Thu, Jun 11, 1998 at 09:41:03AM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> The problem is that the Debian installation kernel tries to be all things
> to all people. As there are machines that boot from SCSI drives, it was
> necessary to have all the scsi controlers "built in" to the kernel, hense
> its large
Quoting Dale Scheetz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Another solution is the one that slackware provides. They build a "bunch"
> of kernels, each one for a specific hardware configuration (broad enought
> to cover a range of hardware, and chosen to keep incopatibly drivers out
> of the picture {like the wd9
On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 10, 1998 at 09:17:20PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > When you boot the kernel it copies the Image from the disk to 0x1000
> > (about 64k). If the Image is beyond 600k then you have a problem because
> > it suddenly will not all fit in lo
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