2.4 boot disks

[Chris Waters]

On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 10:22:52PM -0800, tom@grubby.net wrote:

> anyone got any install disks ( rescue, root drivers ) with the 2.4
> kernel pre release on them?

No, but I have 2.2.17 with ata100 patches on a debian rescue disk.

> I need support for a Promise FastTrack 100 RAID card, and the 2.2.18
> udma66 doesn't seem to do the trick ( unless I'm being stupid ).

There are ata100 patches available, and have been since the first
ata100 drives came out.  Linux beat MS on this one.  Which is why I
felt safe trying an ata100 drive.  Unfortunately, as you have
discovered, Debian's ide patches are *not* the ata100 patches, for
some silly reason.  (In fact, they conflict with the ata100 patches.)

So, you can do what I did: get a vanilla kernel from kernel.org, then
get the ata100 patches from www.linux-ide.org, patch, build, copy to
rescue floppy, boot, install, enjoy.

I'd offer a copy of my rescue floppy, but I never succeeded in
building driver disks, so I just built the stuff I needed into my
kernel, so it probably won't help you.
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