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Re: mkinitrd, ramdisk failure?

Subject: Re: mkinitrd, ramdisk failure?
From: "D. Stimits" <stimits@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 21:52:33 -0600
Cc: "XFS: linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx" <linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
References: <4198.992576454@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com>
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Keith Owens wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 14 Jun 2001 21:34:57 -0600,
> "D. Stimits" <stimits@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >That makes sense. Now I have to wonder why I never noticed the modprobe
> >error on other kernels since I always enable kmod.
> 
> Other kernels had SCSI built in?  scsi_register_module only calls kmod
> for scsi_hostadapter if there is no host at all.

That explains that. I have used modules before, but I always make scsi
built in (till now at least).

As trivia, while working on this ramdisk problem where I failed to
enable it, but eventually got it, I tried various sizes of initial
ramdisk reserve. Whenever I specified something such as 8192, it would
always say it needed about 6 bytes more. I got to 8192*2 reserved, and
it still always wanted a couple bytes more. I ended up setting it to
25000 to satisfy it (25000 kbyte). The modules included in the ramdisk
were scsi and xfs modules.

D. Stimits, stimits@xxxxxxxxxx

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