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[David Moberg <davidjmoberg AT gmail.com>]

sindi keesan wrote:

> It will be half the size if you take your current config (with sound and
> usb support) and answer yes instead of module to basic scsi and scsi hard
> disk support (put those in the kernel instead of using modules scsi_mod
> and sd_mod).

Why don't you take an existing kernel and make an initrd to boot from
SCSI with? Just take the blppaz initrd, resize it (if necessary), replace
the zip disk modules with a scsi controller module and change /linuxrc
to a script that just insmods everything.

loadlin zimage root=/dev/sda1 initrd=newinitrd.gz rw

Or you can compile your own custom kernel.

> The SW71 kernel probably supports lots of other controllers and has
> built-in support for sr and sg and other scsi devices.

It also has NFS and many other options set to 'Y', even though they
could be set to 'M'.

> Is there already a SW71 kernel/config with USB and sound and scsi?

There are none with all of that built in. However, you can insmod scsi
into bare.i. You can insmod sound into bare.i or scsi.s. And you can use
the 2.2.16 USB modules, which I posted earlier, with any 2.2.16 kernel.

> Are flash memory sticks (usb) also scsi?

They require scsi_mod.

> If so, maybe BL could be booted from flash memory stick.

It could, with a 2.4 kernel.

> My neighbor's is 256MB.  I have several computers that boot from
> scsi.  Would newer ones boot from memory stick?

Yes. In fact, I have one.

> Can you make a memory stick bootable?

Yes.

David