Re: [gentoo-dev] new guides

[Gontran <locuchon@azstarnet.com>]

* Achim Gottinger (AGottinger@t-online.de) wrote:
> Gontran wrote:
> > 
> > Hi Achim, devers,
> > 
> > I'm willing to sort through any docs you care to write and correct for
> > English grammar and whatnot, I stand to learn something about the project that
> > way.
> 
> Fine, thank you. I send you my docs at the end of the week.
> > 
> > On another note ...
> > 
> > Bled the ISO last night, hoping to boot the kernel on VIA board with Cyrix MII
> > (via chipset: VT82C598MVP), grub popped up nicely (yea!), selected top option,
> > got some proper looking boot messages then all kind of scrolling hex numbers
> > and total lock.
> > 
> > I understand that there's some issues with some via sets ... have a 486 with
> > 32 Mb I'll try next, I'd give it a shot now, but it won't boot off the cdrom
> > and I find myself without a working 3.5 floppy drive for bootdisk making.
> > Any insights?
> 
> I send the whole last weekend on a rescue disk system and want to update
> and rework
> the whole boot concept on the next weekend.
> In theory the latest iso should work on any >=i486 system, but it
> doesn't.
> I have tested it on a K62/VIA board here with success.
> Yesterday I tried to boot the rescue system on a Compaq armada laptop
> had it hangs after
> loading the rescue disk. :-/
> I'm planning to boot the bootimage directly from the cd, becuase mkisofs
> now allows the use of images other that fd for booting. If it works I
> can add alot of different kernels to the image and there is no more need
> to scan for the cdrom device and mount the iso image loopback.
> This solution should work for you too.
> 
> Does your 486 cdrom allow boot off the cdrom?

Unfortunately, no.  But there is another machine around here with a floppy
that works, come to think of it.  I'll make the floppies there and give it
another try on the cyrix.  

Gontran

> 
> achim~
> 
> > 
> > Gontran
> > 
> > * Achim Gottinger (AGottinger@t-online.de) wrote:
> > > pbg1854@garnet.acns.fsu.edu wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 08:55:04PM -0600, Daniel Robbins wrote:
> > > > > Devs,
> > > > >
> > > > > Some doc improvements to http://www.gentoo.org:
> > > > >
> > > > > The development guide has been converted to the new XML guide format.
> > > > > Also, we now have Pete's excellent new development HOWTO on the site.
> > > > >
> > > > > Both are works in progress.  Much thanks to Pete and Thomas for their
> > > > > hard work!
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > Oh, and speaking of which, I've been quite busy recently (classes,
> > > > work, my band, etc...),
> > >
> > > It seemms everyone has this problem at the moment. :-)
> > >
> > >  which is why I have not added much to the
> > > > HOWTO recently. I'm going to try to put some more info into it this
> > > > week, and so if anyone has any suggestions for improvements/additions
> > > > etc. please let me know, I'll add them.
> > >
> > > Pete, I'll do the FHS part of the howto and additionally I want to add a
> > > chapter that
> > > describes the USE concept. I'm not a native english spear, so I can
> > > eighter write the
> > > whole chapers and you correct them, or I can give you a short list of
> > > points and you
> > > write the chapters. Tell me what you think about that please.
> > >
> > > bye achim~
> > >
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Pete
> > > >
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