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"Jerry A!" wrote: |
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> On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 04:12:25PM +0200, Achim Gottinger wrote: |
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> : You mean you can't boot from the cd? |
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> : If you can boot from a floppy and still be able to access your cdrom on |
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> : your laptop, you can |
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> : make yourself a bootfloppy from the image on the cd and replace the |
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> : kernel on that floppy. |
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> That's the problem. The BIOS on a VIAO recognize three boot devices, |
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> the hard drive, the usb floppy and the pcmcia cdrom. On boot, the BIOS |
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> make the floppy and cdrom appear as /dev/fd0. Not a problem. With the |
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> funkiness of the IDE bus, I can pass "ide1=0x180,0x386" to the kernel, |
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> and w/out loading any pcmcia drivers make the cdrom appear as device |
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> /dev/hdc. At least I could do that with rc1, rc2 and rc3. rc4_pre2 |
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> breaks this behavior. |
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> So, the booting appears to work fine. It's the drive discovery/mounting |
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> that's now failing under rc4_pre2. |
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Ah I think I understand, the linuxrc program does not detect a valid |
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gentoo cd on /dev/hdc. |
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Is this correct? |
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> : You can try it, but please backup before. |
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> No need to, it'll be a fresh install. If I can setup the network card, |
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> I'll just ftp this build.tbz2 over and install it instead of the rc3 |
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> one. |
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So you only have one partition you can use with gentoo? |
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If we don't get the iso working on your machine, a solution could be |
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using tomstbr (a single floppy distro) |
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for installation. It should have all the tools required to setup your |
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network, ftp the sys.tbz2 and install it. |
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achim~ |
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> : I would absolutely |
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> : > appreciate it if you could do that. Hey, can you save me the effort and |
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> : > "-mcpu=i686 -march=i686" that for me? 8) |
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> : Yes I'll use that flags. It will be a i686-pc-linux-gnu sys with |
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> : "-mpentiumpro -march=pentiumpro -O2" options. |
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> : Tell me what special kernel options you need to boot on your laptop. |
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> A standard kernel with eepro100 being supported is all I need. The nice |
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> thing about this machine is that it has a built-in EtherExpress 100 so I |
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> don't really need the PCMCIA initially. |
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> --Jerry |
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> name: Jerry Alexandratos || Open-Source software isn't a |
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> phone: 703.599.6023 || matter of life or death... |
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> email: jerry@×××××××.org || ...It's much more important |
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> || than that! |
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