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On 2/27/06, Uwe Thiem <uwix@××××.na> wrote: |
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> On 27 February 2006 18:48, Richard Fish wrote: |
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> > On 2/27/06, Uwe Thiem <uwix@××××.na> wrote: |
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> > > If you want to boot from a device your kernel has no built-in driver |
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> for |
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> > > use an initrd (for the nit-pickers: initramfs) generated by genkernel. |
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> > > ;-) |
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> > This won't help. Grub uses BIOS calls to access the disk |
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> > drives...kerrnel drivers/initrd doesn't matter. |
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If the BIOS doesn't see the SATA drives (and therefore, grub can't see |
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them), and you don't have an IDE to use as a boot device, would it be |
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possible to create an initrd/initramfs on a floppy for booting purposes? |
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Just wondering... |
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-Hani |
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"If, of the many truths, you select only one and follow it blindly, it will |
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become a falsehood, and you a fanatic." |