Re: The Kernel (fwd)

[Rick Jones <rickya@siservices.net>]

George Bonser wrote:
> 
> On 22 Jan 1998 jfm2@club-internet.fr wrote:
> 
> > Wonderful!  How do you do for reading your SCSI driver if / is in an
> > SCSI disk?

If you're talking about installation, / is in a RAM disk soeven if you
do have to load an additional module from a second disk the OS is in
memory and not dependant on a floppy.

If you are talking about day to day booting, why would anybody want to
use a floppy to boot from anyway?  During installation the install
program, for Debian, has a preset list of things the average Joe should
install / has to install, one of them is a kernel binary of which there
are EIDE and SCSI choices among others.  No need to boot a SCSI kernel
if you have an EIDE.

Making a modular kernel is an issue still up in the air.