Re: [gentoo-dev] new guides

[AGottinger@t-online.de (Achim Gottinger)]

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?

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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> Gontran
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