Re: SRM boot w/unsupported SCSI

[Brian Kurotsuchi <bkurotsu lug ee calpoly edu>]

Thanks for the responses,

I like net booting, but I also like my machines to be able to bootup when
isolated.  Looks like I'm off to find an IDE drive.  Haven't used one of those
for years...

Brian

Quoting Rich Payne (rdp@talisman.alphalinux.org):
> 
> You could always bootp the kernel, if you have an SRM supported network
> card (and another machine, and a network!). The CD option wouldn't be too
> bad, only problem wold be you'd have to burn a new one everytime you
> upgraded the kernel.
> 
> --rdp
> 
> On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Brian Kurotsuchi wrote:
> 
> > I can't find a previous direct answer to this question....
> > 
> > Just upgraded my PC164SX to SRM.  I like it, but my Mylex BT-958 must not be
> > supported since "show device" does not give me any SCSI devices.  I was able
> > to get thru the installation of RedHat 7.1 by booting off my trusty IDE CDROM.
> > 
> > Does this sound reasonable so far?  So what are my options for booting?  I
> > don't want to boot off the floppy drive.  My thinking is that I can:
> > 1) install an IDE (yuck) hard disk to boot off of
> > 2) burn a CD to boot off of
> > 3) boot off a floppy
> > 
> > Do I have any more options that might be more appealing?  If not, I intend to
> > go find a free 50MB IDE drive and implement option #1.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Brian