[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: boot diskette problem

[Kyle Davenport]

Thanks for responding, Brian.   Really I've whittled it down as far as I
can.  But it's even more surprising that the RedHat Rescue Diskette would
do the same thing (and no scsi drivers required there).
Has anyone else actually tested their RH8 Rescue diskette?

I think I am going to have roll my own minimal kernal + initrd.  I'll have
no alternative after I remove the "bootstrap" RH8 install.  I left the
/boot partition in ext2fs.

Kyle


>>...Unfortunately, after whittling
>> everything out of it that I could (no extra debugging, all modules),
it's
>> still 1034KB, and it still doesn't boot.  Probably the new aic79xx
driver
>> is just huge.    Has anyone else hit this limit?
>>
>> It's a pain using the rescue cd because RH8 doesn't include my scsi host
>> driver, but I can get that to work.
>
>
>Kyle,
>
>Methinks there's probably some more whittling down of the kernel to do.
>   You may even want to try an older kernel as they might able to be
>made less hefty than the new kernels. Another thought is that you could
>just put the driver on a floppy and load the module from there after you
>boot from the RH install/rescue cd.
>
>Regards,
>Brian