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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Mon, 21 Nov 2005, David Moberg wrote:

> On 11/18/05, sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:
>
> > David, in case other people have screwy storage devices, would you want to
> > compile a kernel to accept usb-storage as a module, and then only have to
> > recompile the module once in a while instead of the whole kernel (assuming
> > you are willing to provide this service to us dummies)?
>
> http://us.share.geocities.com/davidjmoberg/usb2.gz (kernel) and
> initrd.gz (initrd)
>
> Make sure to use the initrd (with the initrd= option to loadlin) or it
> will not boot.
> You can still boot from IDE disk with the initrd, but it should also now be
> possible to boot BL3 loop with this kernel and initrd.

If the kernel is zimage.usb2, is the following correct:

BL2 ext2    loadlin zimage.usb2  root=/dev/hdb2 ro initrd=initrd.gz
BL2 ramdisk                      root=/dev/ram rw  initrd=initrd.gz
BL3 ext2                         root=/dev/hdb1 rw initrd=initrd.gz
BL3 loop                         root=/dev/loop0 rw initrd=initrd.gz

What is initrd.gz doing?  Why does regular BL use it for ramdisk and loop 
but not to boot to ext2?  Ubuntu apparently needs it to boot to ext2.

> This is only a temporary fix for your card reader to work. The old kernel is
> still available. I will eventually provide a more permanent solution.

Thanks a lot.  I don't know why XP (2002) included my card when SW10.2 did 
not.

> David

Sindi