Re: [gentoo-dev] Help w/Install

[Jerry A!]

On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 04:12:25PM +0200, Achim Gottinger wrote:
: 
: You mean you can't boot from the cd?
: If you can boot from a floppy and still be able to access your cdrom on
: your laptop, you can
: make yourself a bootfloppy from the image on the cd and replace the
: kernel on that floppy.

That's the problem.  The BIOS on a VIAO recognize three boot devices,
the hard drive, the usb floppy and the pcmcia cdrom. On boot, the BIOS
make the floppy and cdrom appear as /dev/fd0. Not a problem. With the
funkiness of the IDE bus, I can pass "ide1=0x180,0x386" to the kernel,
and w/out loading any pcmcia drivers make the cdrom appear as device
/dev/hdc. At least I could do that with rc1, rc2 and rc3. rc4_pre2
breaks this behavior.

So, the booting appears to work fine. It's the drive discovery/mounting
that's now failing under rc4_pre2.

: You can try it, but please backup before.

No need to, it'll be a fresh install. If I can setup the network card,
I'll just ftp this build.tbz2 over and install it instead of the rc3
one.

: I would absolutely
: > appreciate it if you could do that.  Hey, can you save me the effort and
: > "-mcpu=i686 -march=i686" that for me?  8)
: 
: Yes I'll use that flags. It will be a i686-pc-linux-gnu sys with
: "-mpentiumpro -march=pentiumpro -O2" options.
: Tell me what special kernel options you need to boot on your laptop.

A standard kernel with eepro100 being supported is all I need. The nice
thing about this machine is that it has a built-in EtherExpress 100 so I
don't really need the PCMCIA initially.

        --Jerry

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