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- In a message sent at Wed, 1 Jul 1998 10:04:43 +0100 (BST),
- Sam Ellis (sce196@ecs.soton.ac.uk) said:
-
- > When linux is started using the -bootkernel argument, it gets stuck after
- > noticing the CD-ROM drive. The CDROM drive is connected as a slave on
- > the RiscPCs built-in IDE bus. Linux prints:
- >
- > hda: ST34342A, 4103MB w/128kB Cache, CHS=8894/15/63
- > hdb: MATSHITA CR0584, ATAPI CDROM drive
- >
- > Then nothing else occurs, and the cursor stops flashing.
- >
- > When I unplug the CDROM from the IDE bus, Linux has no troubles, and I
- > successfully manage to get to the RedHat installer.
-
- I'm experiencing exactly the same problem with the CDROM drive, so if anyone
- who knows the answer could Cc it to me, I'd be very grateful, as I have a
- second slice and unplugging the CDROM drive is _very_ fiddly.
-
- Thankfully, after waiting the last six months to get my second hard disc
- working, now I've got enough disc space it's only taken me one day to install
- Linux, and pretty painless it was too! My sincerest thankings to everyone
- involved in writing the documentation that allowed even a complete dummy like
- me to get it working.
-
- Cheers,
-
- JJF.
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