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- Russell King - ARM Linux Admin <rmk@ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
-
- > This is a known problem, and a fax has been sent to Baildon
- > Electronics. However, since I don't have an ICS interface card, I
- > can't debug it. The obvious problems have been fixed to the docs that
- > Baildon supplied, but it still doesn't work, and I don't know why. I
- > am waiting a reply.
-
- OK. Many thanks for your help so far; I will wait to hear from you.
-
- [snip]
-
- > It may be possible to use the ICS partitioning scheme - in other
- > words, use ICS partition manager to setup a two new partitions at the
- > end of the disk (and when the Linux kernel works with the ICS IDE card
- > properly) reformat these partitions to be ext2 and swap. I have no
- > idea what ICS IDEFS will make of them though.
-
- Hhhmmmm.
-
- I have managed to get rather further now. If I supply the extra commands
- "hda=noprobe hdb=noprobe" to the rpc kernel at boot time then it all boots
- OK, accepts the boot floppy disc and then kicks off the RedHat
- installation. Of course at this point it all grinds to a halt because the
- Linux sources (the RPMs) are all in an X-files archive on the CDROM and I
- have now no idea of what to do with them or how to get the installation to
- read them.
-
- Any further pointers would be very gratefully accepted :-)
-
- JDL
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- John Lagrue
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