usb external drive

[bruce woller]

I have had good success with mkinitrd.  See

http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/Kernel-HOWTO/create_initrd.html

for a quick description of using this utility.  It basically sets up 
your initrd.img file based on what functions were compiled as modules 
in the last kernel build.  On new world machines yaboot.conf has a 
pointer to the initrd.img file (e.g. initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.20-8d.img).

Works for me.

Regards,
Bruce

On Tuesday, July 15, 2003, at 03:38  PM, Rick Thomas wrote:

> Hi Eddie,
>
> Could you share with us the magic secrets of setting up an initrd (on 
> an
> old-world machine, in my case -- but advice for new-world machines 
> would
> be apperciated too!) to pre-load drivers (again, in my case, SCSI, USB,
> and FireWire -- but others would be appreciated too!)
>
> Thanks!
>
> Rick
>
>
>
> Eddie Bindt wrote:
>>
>> CUOn Tue, 15 Jul 2003, Thomas wrote:
>
> ...
>
>> On my AWS9650 and my AWS9650SMP I run stock YDL kernels, with the 
>> original
>> scsi drivers loaded from initrd. No problem what so ever.
>> Oldworld machines might be a little less documented, but, if you know 
>> what
>> you are doing, it works great.
>> And yes, I also use an external USB disk, it is automaticly detected 
>> and
>> mounted by the stock kernel.
>
> ...
>
>>> recompiling the
>>> kernel will do fine to solve it...
>
>> No need for, just configure your initrd and your modules the right 
>> way..
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