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> support. This happily recognises the Bus Toaster and allows me to
> access the Jaz drive - but by this time my root partition is /dev/hda3
> and I can't change it to be /dev/sda1. How can I get round this?
> Presumably I need to create a LILO boot image with PCMCIA
> built in that sets up PCMCIA support before trying to mount the
> root (SCSI) directory.
The thing to use is the `initrd' feature. This lets you
load an `initial' root image into RAM to get things started,
and once you've got PCMCIA going, it will mount the real root
partition. I set this up on a Zip, and it works. Since you
can compress the disk image, it's actually possible to get
kernel, loader (LILO or LOADLIN), and image all on a floppy,
and boot competely without the internal HD.
With RedHat, the info doc is /usr/src/linux/Documentation/initrd.txt;
I dunno about SW. There's an example at
ftp://elserv.ffm.fgan.de/pub/linux/loadlin-1.6/initrd-example.tgz
too.
The setup is only slightly weird; it expects a program called
`linuxrc' to be in the root directory of the init image.
You can change the root partition on the fly through
/proc/sys/kernel/real-root-dev, too. Nifty.
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