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September 16, 2003
Initrd.img & aic79xx as a module
Appendix A - Creating initrd.img file
From "The Linux Kernel HOWTO"
Useful for my task of configuring OpenGFS, especially §31.7 ...
Now copy into the initrd/lib/ directory the SCSI modules you require. For example, if we have an Adaptec AIC-7850 SCSI adapter, we would require the aic7xxx.o module from /lib/modules/{version}/scsi/aic7xxx.o. Then, place it in the initrd/lib/ directory.
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The file initrd/linuxrc should contain a script to load all the modules needed for the kernel to access the SCSI partition. In this case, just the aic7xxx module (insmod can take options such as the IRQ and IO-port for the device. See Chapter 42).
Posted by daen at September 16, 2003 10:33 PM