Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1998 09:59:28 +0200 (MET DST) From: castelli@cscs.ch To: Alex Farber <alex@kawo2.rwth-aachen.de> Cc: aic7xxx Mailing List <AIC7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: does linux detect ASUS p2b-s ? Message-ID: <l03020903b21174cd704c@[148.187.11.128]> In-Reply-To: <35EB2EC8.473D2D6F@kawo2.rwth-aachen.de> References: <35EB0E69.5B351C05@captainvideo.nl> <35EB0C10.44D74401@kawo2.rwth-aachen.de>
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>Alex Farber wrote: >>>So I just overwrite the vmlinuz with my own kernel and it >> kind of works too - it boots, but does not start the Red Hat install >> program (why?). It boots my old Linux from the IDE-disk. > >Hi again, > >and sorry if my mail bothers you I hope I am almost done. I guess >the install disk with the replaced vmlinuz was booting the current >installation and not continueing with the Red Hat installation >program, since there was no RAM-disk support in the 2.0.35 kernel, >that I compiled and placed at the disk. So I've recompiled and >no the installation program comes further, boots, and after few >questions asks me for the "supplementary disk". But when I insert >it, I get the error message "mount: not a block device", which >probably means not supported file system (though console shows >"mounting ... ext2 ..." which actually IS in that kernel). > >So maybe someone has an idea? Some option, that I am missing >when compiling the kernel? > >Greetings >Alex > try to boot linux with with the file aic7xxx by: sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/mirror/linux/distributions/SuSE/SuSE-Linux/suse_update/S .u.S.E.-5.2/disks remember: prepare the booting disk with rawrite... >-- >http://www.simplex.ru/pref.html > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-aic7xxx" in the body of the message -------------------------------------------- Christian Castelli Laboratory of Cellular Pathology Regional Institute of Pathology 24, in selva road ch-6601 Locarno (switzerland) tel ++41 (0)91 756 2681 fax ++41 (0)91 756 2646 -------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-aic7xxx" in the body of the message
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