[syslinux] Syslinux/isolinux: is this possible?

[Seth Kurtzberg]

True.  Some of the older kernels had some problems with ide-scsi with certain 
drives, so it might be a good idea to include both.  Then, if you run into an 
ide-scsi problem, you can reboot without the:

    append="hdc=ide-scsi"

command line flag.  (I assume everyone on this list knows that it is 
typically, but not always, hdc.)

I think that you are right and almost all of the SCSI drivers could be 
compiled into the kernel within the space limitations.  If you get near the 
space limit, you can always cut out the most obscure ones (there is still a 
driver for a Mylex EISA board, for example, which you aren't terrbily likely 
to run across).

Unfortunately I've not found a way to treat the drive as both IDE-SCSI and 
IDE; that is, if you use the command line option for IDE-SCSI, then you can't 
refer to it as a conventional IDE device.  I use the ide-scsi command line 
argument rather than configuring the kernel to specify ide-scsi so I can use 
this workaround if necessary.  (Also the kernel configuration actually didn't 
work, but that was ages ago and has probably been fixed.)

On Thursday 20 June 2002 09:23 pm, you wrote:
> Seth Kurtzberg wrote:
> > Peter,
> >
> > I've made this work, in a manner very similar to what you suggest, at
> > least with an IDE cdrom, and then a root file system pivot.  I haven't
> > tried to handle SCSI or other possible cdrom types, so it isn't a general
> > solution; on the other hand in the last several months I've only had one
> > user complain because it would only handle IDE cdrom.  With this
> > configuration the kernel and enought of an initrd file system to complete
> > the process fits on a single floppy.
> >
> > You could build a kernel that also has the Adaptek SCSI drivers, which
> > would get you another sizeable set of machines that you could operate on.
> >
> > So, while I agree with you that a general solution would be a lot of
> > work, a limited but still very useful solution is not difficult to
> > construct.
>
> Compiling in a large number of SCSI drivers into the kernel isn't really
> that unrealistic, I don't think.  You may want to use ide-scsi, so that
> the CD-ROM ends up as /dev/sr0 regardless of type.
>
> 	-hpa

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