Ronald G Minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 16 Nov 2001, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > > I added ``hda=cyl,head,sec'' to the kernel command line > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > literally that or did you put hda=0,0,0 to make the kernel probe?
I filled in the values... 0,0,0 might have worked I haven't tried that combination. > What about the controller turn-on? what chipset was this? The i860. But the ich2 is pretty much the same as the piixe from the driver side. All I did was set 2 enable bits. The code should be in the tree under soutbridge/intel/82801. > > I think I'm going to put my interactive command line patch in. This is too > handy and there's not other good way to do it. Hmm. I netboot and rebuild my images all of the time... But seriously I think putting in the command line patch is a good idea if we twist it a little bit. In particular could we introduce the infrastructure for a basic ELF formatted bootloader? At a slightly later date we can figure out how to compile in all of the fill_inbuf routines, at once. Eric
