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On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 02:32 +0100, Tom wrote: |
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> Hi |
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> I had a very un-nice evening, trying to get my system back into a |
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> usable state, which I eventually managed, but that is another story. |
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> It made me realise I need a way to be able to use my cdrom drive to |
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> boot cds. |
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> Let me explain before you say 'huuhh!?' |
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> I bought a new dvdwriter a couple of weeks ago, and ever since I am no |
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> longer able to boot from cd (using that drive, its SATA). It seems its a |
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> bios bug or something, I even contacted the vendor (ASRock) and they |
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> sent me an updated flash image, which I was sofar unable to install, |
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> for some strange obscure reason.(I generally do know how to flash |
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> bioses, and strangely the 'official' bios images from their site work, |
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> just not the one support sent me, they are now offering to send me a |
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> pre-burnt bios chip, but I'm slighly reluctant to go that road...) |
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> So now I'm basically thinking to myself, ok, I have a floppy drive, so |
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> what I need is a floppy disk, with a small kernel and my sata-chipset |
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> driver and some mechanism for then booting of a (bootable)cd lying |
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> ready in my drive. |
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> So, any ideas how to do something like this? Maybe something ready |
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> made, or a convenient script. |
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> Everything I found regarding this, was using 2.3 kernels and were |
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> generally out of date :( |
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> Tom |
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