2940U2W under Linux 2.4.x

[Buchan Milne]

Justin T. Gibbs wrote:

>>It was statically compiled in (I'm booting from a SCSI disk).  Is it 
>>possible to boot from a SCSI disk when the driver is a module?  I would 
>>guess so, as somehow the kernel gets bootstrapped far enough be able to 
>>be loaded itself.  If it'll help I can try it.
>>
>>Larry
>>

You can boot from a device with drivers as modules, if you use an 
initial ram disk image (normally initrd.img), which is passed to the 
kernel by the boot loader. You might need to make such an image with 
mkinitrd.

Buchan

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