SUSE vs. Debian (lindows)

[Brett I. Holcomb]

You don't have to build SCSI and the others as modules.  I boot an all 
SCSI system with XFS.  I simply built in the SCSI stuff (as well as many 
other things) and the kernels boot happily.  I haven't used initrd since 
  Caldera WS 3.1.  Simply make scsi, etc. part of the kernel when you do 
the make menuconfig.



Joel Hammer wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 08:23:37AM -0800, Net Llama! wrote:
> 
>>On 01/18/04 07:26, Joel Hammer wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I blew away my debian (lindows) box (make modules_install
>>>is a dangerous command). It wouldn't boot anymore.
>>
>>I don't follow you at all.  I don't see how installing modules is 
>>dangerous, or how it can prevent you from booting the OS.  This sounds 
>>like PEBCAK to me.
> 
> 
> If modules required for the kernel to run properly are
> missing, the kernel doesn't function, like reiserfs and
> scsi modules.  If the new and old kernel have the same
> version number, make modules_install overwrites the modules
> that the old kernel requires with the newly compiled
> modules, and it looks like the old modules are erased.
> After the new kernel won't boot, as has been my unhappy