Messages in this thread | | | From | Andrzej Krzysztofowicz <> | Subject | Re: IDE -> ATA DISK | Date | Wed, 2 Dec 1998 10:15:50 +0100 (MET) |
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> > Quoting Kurt Garloff (garloff@kg1.ping.de): > > > You compiled ide-disk as a module which is a very bad idea, if your root fs > > is on a ide-disk. How should the kernel load a module, without being able to > > mount the root fs? > > Something similar happened to me some weeks ago. I just forgot to > change the setting to be non-modular, and it didn't boot. Wouldn't it be possible > to have a "Default device to boot from" entry in {,menu,x}config to > enter a value and have the config stuff check for the appropriate > drivers to be compiled into the kernel?
And how should kernel's Makefile guess that /dev/hdc is a CD-ROM, not disk ? Especially, when kernel is compiled on another machine than that on which it will be booted...
Cheers -- ======================================================================= Andrzej M. Krzysztofowicz ankry@mif.pg.gda.pl tel. (0-58) 347 14 61 Wydz.Fizyki Technicznej i Matematyki Stosowanej Politechniki Gdanskiej
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