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=0.2 required=5.0 tests=DATE_IN_PAST_12_24, DMARC_MISSING,FREEMAIL_FROM,INVALID_DATE,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H2 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=4.0.0 Received: from mailout06.sul.t-online.com ([194.25.134.19]) by cvs.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1) id 14lX8Z-0004Lx-00 for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Fri, 06 Apr 2001 08:22:55 -0600 Received: from fwd07.aul.t-online.de by mailout06.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 14lY66-00047y-04; Fri, 06 Apr 2001 17:24:26 +0200 Received: from helios.bagwan (320095285153-0001@[217.80.39.225]) by fwd07.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 14lY5z-0rUYs4C; Fri, 6 Apr 2001 17:24:19 +0200 Received: (qmail 6156 invoked by uid 0); 6 Apr 2001 18:07:47 -0000 Received: from sadchitananda2.bagwan (HELO gentoo.org) (achim@192.168.2.1) by helios.bagwan with SMTP; 6 Apr 2001 18:07:47 -0000 Message-ID: <3ACDD930.937CB586@gentoo.org> From: AGottinger@t-online.de (Achim Gottinger) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.14 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Help w/Install 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> <20010406110846.A386@kabbu.reston.redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Sender: 320095285153-0001@t-dialin.net 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: achim@gentoo.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Gentoo Linux development list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Fri Apr 6 08:23:01 2001 X-Original-Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2001 16:56:48 +0200 X-Archives-Salt: d6af77ea-920d-4d2e-8e39-1f65c146f891 X-Archives-Hash: bcb914f438d937c7190e7cbcb292b37a "Jerry A!" wrote: > > 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. > Ah I think I understand, the linuxrc program does not detect a valid gentoo cd on /dev/hdc. Is this correct? > : 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. So you only have one partition you can use with gentoo? If we don't get the iso working on your machine, a solution could be using tomstbr (a single floppy distro) for installation. It should have all the tools required to setup your network, ftp the sys.tbz2 and install it. achim~ > > : 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! > > _______________________________________________ > gentoo-dev mailing list > gentoo-dev@gentoo.org > http://www.gentoo.org/mailman/listinfo/gentoo-dev