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Re: linux [8.4.1]: kernel/initrd
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Mon Jun 12 23:56:27 2000
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From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
cc: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>, testers@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 08 Jun 2000 09:32:29 EDT."
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Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 23:56:21 EDT
> > It found the kernel, but while booting it couldn't seem to find my
> > scsi controller (yes, this is a scsi only system).
>
> None of this seems surprising. We don't currently support machines in
> the cluster model whose root filesystems live on SCSI disks. (The
> initrd stuff which Red Hat does and which we don't do is precisely
> what allows the Red Hat install to support SCSI-only systems.)
Ah, I'd thought we'd put enough brains into the kernel update process
that there weren't known configuration that would update to an
unbootable system. What creates the initrd image? IE., what would it
take to create an image, both in my individual case, and in the
generic case of any scsi machien that needed it (I'm sure there are
other SCSI machines running IS linux athena)?
Jonathon
