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

[John Summerfield <summer os2 ami com au>]

dmierzej@elka.pw.edu.pl said:
>  Didn't it say "Assuming [...] 33MHz [...]", not _66_? Where did you
> get the 66 idea in first place? Just curious.


The warning (and it said warning) specifically mentioned 66.

So I said 66. Why should I ague?


> [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].


Actually, I did it on RHL 6.2;-)

However, I saw your problem, tried it, and it worked. Not being one to skite, 
I thought I'd not tell you;-)

However, if you want a copy of mine, say so offlist and I'll mail it to you. 
gzipped.

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