Re: idebus? [was: Re: Homebrewed kernel]

[Dominik Mierzejewski <dmierzej elka pw edu pl>]

John Summerfield wrote:
> 
> dmierzej@elka.pw.edu.pl said:
> >         append="ide0=ata66 idebus=66 parport=0x378,7 apm=off"
> >                              ^^^^^^^^^ Hm... I always thought idebus
> > was supposed to be equal to PCI clock. Do you have 66MHz PCI clock?
> 
> I saw a warning. I put it in. The warning went away and everything went on as 
> before.

Didn't it say "Assuming [...] 33MHz [...]", not _66_? Where did you get the
66 idea in first place? Just curious.

[snip]
> Today I'm doing something different;-)
> [summer@possum summer]$ cat /proc/cmdline 
> BOOT_IMAGE=RHL7 root=2105 BOOT_FILE=/vmlinuz-2.4.2
> [summer@possum summer]$ 
> 
> I powered down, unplugged hdb. powered up, the BIOS can't see any drives!!
> 
> I'd just copied the contents of hdb to hde, so booted hde (via floppy and 
> fiddling). Linux can see hda.
> 
> Just in case, I copied the essential parts of hda too. A bit tricky as my
> boot disk has 2.4.0 and that doesn't drive my HPT chipset at all well with
> my IBM drive attached.

bootdisk? How on earth did you create a bootdisk in RH7+kernel 2.4.x?
Just curious again, because as I have written in another mail to the list,
the latest mkbootdisk (as well as the one shipped with 7.0) hangs while
doing mke2fs /dev/fd0 [something].

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