Re: [Devil-linux-develop] DL completely contained on CD?

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

Bruce Smith wrote:
>>>It would be easy to hack the linuxrc startup script, and say if
>>>/cdrom/config/etc-static.tar.gz2 exists, then completely ignore the
>>>floppy and USB devices, and ONLY untar the static etc file from CD.
>>
>>I like this idea, too.
>>It will work only with IDE CD-ROMs .
> 
> 
> Good point.
> 
> Speaking of CD drives, I installed the latest DL on a PC with a SCSI CD
> drive for the first time yesterday.  I started out with a blank floppy. 
> It booted, ask if I wanted to copy the config to floppy (I said "y"),
> and it ask if I wanted to probe for SCSI controllers.  Again I said "y".
> And ... PUKE!  :-)   It couldn't find any SCSI modules.
> 
> Are any SCSI modules available to the boot script at that time now?
> Or have they all been removed to save memory?  Or have they moved?
> 
> If they've been removed, we might as well remove the code (and question)
> for probing for SCSI.

I fixed some of the problems with the SCSI detection, but it's not 
completely fixed.
The script has problems with the creation of the file 
/dev/shm/.probed_modules

Unfortunately I don't have more time to look into this and I'm away this 
weekend. But I'm confident that Bruce can fix it. ;-)

cya
   Heiko