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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` :-)
--
Alexey V. Vissarionov aka Gremlin from Kremlin
<gremlin ПРИ gremlin ТЧК ru>
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