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SubjectRe: Kernel Panic at Boot
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You can access tha disk via the bios, that is how the kernel in first
place can loaded.

Next we can make a kernel with initrd support. It gives the boot loader
(note not the kernel) the possibility to load a RAM disk (with bios
calls), which the kernel can mount as root. The kernel can then load
the required scsi driver as a module and then mount the real root fs
from disk.

Regards,
/Karl

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From: andy thomas <andy@ic.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Kernel Panic at Boot
Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 11:01:03 +0100 (BST)

>
>
> On Sun, 6 Aug 2000, Mahesh Mahadevan wrote:
>
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Please ignore my previous mail.
> >
> > I figured out the cause and solution of the problem (I
> > had to compile the scsi controller driver into the
> > kernel, rather than having it as a module -- which is
> > the default).. sorry for that junk mail..
>
> Systems that boot from a SCSI disk should always have the SCSI driver
> compiled into the kernel. Loading it as a module won't work as how can
> the kernel access the module file from the disk if it has no SCSI driver?
>
> I've seen this happen ;-)
>
> cheers,
>
> Andy
>
>
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