RE: Vmware, RHEL4 confusion

["Blackburn, Marvin" <mblackburn glenraven com>]

 Great explanation!
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nahant-list-bounces redhat com 
> [mailto:nahant-list-bounces redhat com] On Behalf Of 
> Aleksandar Milivojevic
> Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 10:25 AM
> To: nahant-list redhat com
> Subject: Re: Vmware, RHEL4 confusion
> 
> Quoting John Horne <john horne plymouth ac uk>:
> 
> > Well we tried just rebooting initially but the kernel panics. Yes,
> > modprobe.conf was configured to use the LSI driver, and yes the ESX
> > server was configured to use the LSI driver. After 
> rebuilding initrd it
> > works.
> 
> A (not so) short explanation why you got that kernel panic.
> 
> The purpuse of initrd image is to hold device driver modules (drivers 
> not statically linked into kernel image, but rather 
> dynamically loaded) 
> needed to mount root file system.  It solves the chicken and egg 
> problem (device drivers needed to access root file system are on the 
> root file system -- see the problem?).
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