Re: [TCLUG:16898] Par port SCSI bootdisk?

[Gabe Turner (officer) <dopp@acm.cs.umn.edu>]

Well, if you boot from the floppy (and it's, say, a RedHat install floppy) you
won't have a shell to run modprobe or insmod from.... Slackware, OTOH, gives
you a shell right away (Go Slack! :) 

Gabe (go-go asbestos shield!)

> 
> Howdy,
>  
> > The best way I can think of dealing with the boot/root floppy is to not
> > build the miniscsi as a module, but instead as an integral part of the
> > kernel.
> 
> The docs that come with the patch are pretty emphatic about stating that
> the drivers must be built as modules... I wouldn't have the slightest idea
> how to circumvent this.. 
> 
> What is the problem with just putting the drivers in a directory on the
> bootdisk and loadingthem with insmod or modprobe at boot time? 
> 
> thanks,
> Bill
> 
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