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On Wednesday 04 November 2009 03:46:54 Harry Putnam wrote: |
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> Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com> writes: |
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> > your drivers for the ide disks have to be built INTO THE KERNEL! NOT |
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> > MODULES. |
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> Is that really a hard rule? I've done it both ways successfully in the |
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> past. |
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If you do not use an initrd|initramfs, then the drivers for the chipset and |
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the filesystem on / do need to be built into the kernel. The drivers are on |
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the disk and the kernel needs to read the drivers from the disk to read the |
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disk to get the drivers :-) chicken and egg. |
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If you use an initrd/initramfs or have genkernel make one for you, then the |
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drivers are on that ramdisk and the kernel can see and load them so all is |
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well. |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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