Hi Mark, I have some good news, and I have some bad news.
THe good news first. I do have a boot disk for you. (details below) THe bad news is that since I'm removing scsi support (this was reported to be the problem, see http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-user-9810/msg03176.html ) and since I only have scsi drives, there's no way for me to confirm that it works. I have tested it, and up to the point where it wants to see an ide drive, it works. What happens after that.. One area in which I'm less than certain is the ramdisk parameters (docs have different approaches). If you have any problems, please write down what the messages are and send them to me and/or the list and I'll see if I can fix it. So, I guess you can call this a beta release: http://weber.u.washington.edu/~dstern/resc1440_b1.bin Instructions ------------ 1.) Use the regular dd command for bootdisks: dd if=resc1440_b1.bin of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 conv=sync ; sync With any luck, you should be able to substitute this for the regular boot disk and you'll be up and running. No guarantees, and all that jazz. :) If I left anything out that you need (details below), also let me know. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Details of Mark's Basic Boot Disk (no scsi, no md,..) ===================================================== kernel-source-2.0.34-4 gcc 2.7.2.3-4.8 Staticly linked kernel options ("Y"es) -------------------------------------- CONFIG_MODULES, CONFIG_NET, CONFIG_PCI, CONFIG_SYSVIPC, CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT, CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF, CONFIG_KERNEL_ELF, CONFIG_M386, CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE, CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD, CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CMD640, CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RZ1000, CONFIG_BLK_DEV_TRITON, CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP, CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM, CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD, CONFIG_INET, CONFIG_IP_NOSR, CONFIG_SKB_LARGE, CONFIG_NETDEVICES, CONFIG_MINIX_FS, CONFIG_EXT2_FS, CONFIG_NLS, CONFIG_FAT_FS, CONFIG_MSDOS_FS, CONFIG_PROC_FS, CONFIG_MOUSE, Dynamically linked kernel options ("M"odules) --------------------------------------------- CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD, CONFIG_DUMMY, CONFIG_PPP, CONFIG_ISO9660_FS, CONFIG_VFAT_FS, CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_437, CONFIG_SERIAL, CONFIG_ATIXL_BUSMOUSE, CONFIG_BUSMOUSE, CONFIG_MS_BUSMOUSE, CONFIG_PSMOUSE Modifications to Makefile ------------------------- ROOT_DEV = /dev/fd0 RAMDISK = -DRAMDISK=1440 Miscellaneous ------------- $ ls -l /usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.34/arch/i386/boot/bzImage -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 321031 Dec 14 13:09 bzImage rm -f /floppy/linux cp bzImage /floppy mv /floppy/bzImage /floppy/linux ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -- David ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED]