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Re: [PLUG] /etc on a separate partition
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On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 06:08:14AM -0800, Wayne Dawson wrote:
> There are other things I
> can try (I haven't looked at initrd for example), but it's not worth
> spending more time on, unless somebody can give me a short and clear
> procedure for doing it.
Under Debian, you can:
apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.18-686
then add:
initrd=/initrd.img
to your /vmlinuz stanza in lilo.conf respectively.
Under Redhat,
su -
cd /usr/src
wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/linux-2.4.18.tar.bz2
tar -jxvpf linux-2.4.18.tar.bz2
cd linux
make menuconfig
Block Devices -> RAM Disk Support [Y]
Block Devices -> RAM Disk Support -> Inital RAM Disk (initrd) Support [Y]
Finally select the remainder of the hardware you need supported as modules
mv /lib/modules/2.4.18 /lib/modules/2.4.18.v0
make dep && make clean bzImage modules modules_install
cp /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18
/sbin/mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.4.18.img 2.4.18
Add the following to your /etc/lilo.conf replacing hd? for your root filesystem
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18
label=linuxTesting
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.18.img
read-only
root=/dev/hd?
then run lilo
reboot
> Here's what I have, in case anybody wants to do that. Red Hat 8, two
> SCSI disks in an enclosure that is separate from the CPU, with an
> Adaptec SCSI interface card.
In my experiences, there are times you must disable IDE completely to
boot from SCSI. Have you tried that?
> I am currently running the stock RH8 kernel with a driver for the
> Adaptec card running as a module, but I have a kernel that I compiled
> with the SCSI driver and RAID compiled in. Any takers?
FYI: The stock Redhat kernels *are* initrd enabled kernels (AFAIK)
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Regards,
Michael Bevilacqua
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