Michael,
Thanks for your replay.
Michael Kujawa wrote:
> The later red hat distributions come modular be default, perhaps moving
> up to RedHat 5.2 would make your life a little easier? RedHat 4.2 is
> really quite old now. (although redhat 5 has that silly "delaying eth0
> initialization" message)
>
> Getting a modular kernel + kerneld to work is really not that hard, but
> like so many things in Linux, the documentation is only good after
> you already understand it ;p
>
> I didn't remember you posting about getting the kernel modular; anyway,
> here's a summary of what you do:
>
> configure the kernel, only including the drivers you need to boot in the
> kernel and making everything else modular. make zdisk, make modules, then
> make modules_install. reboot off the zdisk floppy (I always put the
> kernel on a floppy till I'm satisfied it works, then I make zlilo).
>
> At this point, probably not much will work (don't panic), but you should
> be able to boot and read /etc and your modules directory because you
> included those drivers in the kernel image. After running depmod -a
> (which many systems do on every bootup) you'll need to edit
> /etc/conf.modules. This file is what kerneld uses to know when to load
> modules, and is probably the only hard part. Here's mine:
>
> alias eth0 3c509
> alias eth1 eepro100
>
> Now when I type "ifconfig eth0 up", kerneld loads 3c509.o from the
> appropriate modules directory.
I have attached a file that I use for Win95 to boot multiple OSs. Have fun and
use to your advantage. Documentation is provided by the DOS help file.
*************************************************************************
Signed,
Satisfied
P.'S. Detailed Documentation(s) and Sample(s) are more than welcome!
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