From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 (2022-12-14) on finch.gentoo.org X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.4 required=5.0 tests=DATE_IN_PAST_12_24,DMARC_QUAR, INVALID_DATE,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=4.0.0 Received: from arsenic.akopia.com ([204.242.142.104] helo=kabbu.reston.redhat.com) by cvs.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1) id 14lWuN-0004GK-00 for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Fri, 06 Apr 2001 08:08:15 -0600 Received: from jerry by kabbu.reston.redhat.com with local (Exim 3.22 #1) id 14lXqw-00006Z-00 for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Fri, 06 Apr 2001 11:08:46 -0400 From: Jerry A! To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Help w/Install Message-ID: <20010406110846.A386@kabbu.reston.redhat.com> References: <20010405235214.A314@kabbu.reston.redhat.com> <20010405205744.A4231@cvs.gentoo.org> <20010406004011.A476@kabbu.reston.redhat.com> <20010405214913.C4538@cvs.gentoo.org> <20010406010004.A533@kabbu.reston.redhat.com> <20010405221523.D4538@cvs.gentoo.org> <20010406012151.A592@kabbu.reston.redhat.com> <3ACDC974.9711788D@gentoo.org> <20010406102230.A14246@kabbu.reston.redhat.com> <3ACDCEC9.93F7D151@gentoo.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3ACDCEC9.93F7D151@gentoo.org>; from AGottinger@t-online.de on Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 04:12:25PM +0200 Organization: Broken Toys Unlimited Sender: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org Errors-To: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org X-Reply-To: jerry@thehutt.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Gentoo Linux development list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Fri Apr 6 08:09:01 2001 X-Original-Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 11:08:46 -0400 X-Archives-Salt: e1bf9828-a50b-4a45-8223-6468e3c77113 X-Archives-Hash: fb879bc0721fd5678eda602e784c6ff2 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 name: Jerry Alexandratos || Open-Source software isn't a phone: 703.599.6023 || matter of life or death... email: jerry@thehutt.org || ...It's much more important || than that!