Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 12:52:20 +0400
From: gremlin@...mlin.ru
To: owl-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Testing User Guide & installer

On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 12:31:21PM +0400, Grigoriy Strokin wrote:

 > (Moving the discussion to owl-users)

 > > > trying to embed debian's initrd to Owl :-)
 > > What for? Just for detection of CD-ROM device?
 > No. My CD-ROM device is successfully detected by any Linux kernel
 > (as /dev/hda), but the SATA hard disk is not (see below)

So, what prevents you to rebuild installation CD? It is really simple.

 > > Why don't you want to build a kernel from sources? All my
 > > notebooks run such custom kernels.
 > I have tried to include anything SATA-related into the kernel as
 > built-in rather than as modules, but it still doesn't work. Either
 > I've missed something, or this initrd does more than just loading
 > required modules:

You really did - it just loads necessary modules.

 > since the disk is eventually seen as /dev/sda, I suppose that
 > initrd configures some kind of SCSI emulation in addition to
 > loading required modules.

Try `insmod needed_module` while looking at `tail -F /var/log/kernel` :-)


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