From: "Andrew Suessmuth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SCSI oddity under Linux
Date: Sun, 7 Nov 1999 00:21:14 -0500
> When booted from GRUB, Linux sees no SCSI hosts in my system, and
> consequently none of my SCSI devices. My hard drives are all IDE at the
> moment, so the boot process is unhind
From: Stephen Early <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: New item in the Multiboot information structure
Date: Sat, 6 Nov 1999 16:23:06 + (GMT)
> Have a look in linux arch/i386/boot/setup.S, in the #ifdef CONFIG_APM
> section;
I have already read it (perhaps more than one year ago), but an
imp
On 6 Nov 1999, Gordon Matzigkeit wrote:
> Personally, I dislike the `/dev/' prefix because it is misleading. I
> dislike it in Mach, too (where you can specify the location of a boot
> script using `/dev/XXX' as a synonym for `XXX').
>
Me too. I had to really break my head when it came
When booted from GRUB, Linux sees no SCSI hosts in my system, and
consequently none of my SCSI devices. My hard drives are all IDE at the
moment, so the boot process is unhindered.
The GRUB command I'm using is:
kernel (hd2,1)/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.12-20smp root=/dev/hdc2
However, if I use GRUB and c
OKUJI Yoshinori <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > When I first tried to manually boot Debian via GRUB command line
> > I did get VFS error with the root partition. [...]
>
> This is probably because you just didn't specify the root partition.
Yep, I was specifying the kernel parameter incorrectl
From: Alan McLean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Installation trouble with latest CVS
Date: Sat, 6 Nov 1999 09:41:27 -0600
> When I first tried to manually boot Debian via GRUB command line
> I did get VFS error with the root partition. After reinstalling
> LILO in the MBR and in the first sec
