2.4 boot disks

[tom@grubby.net]

Thanks. This is very helpful. I've been barking up the wrong tree with the udma66 images then. Grrr.

One last piece of this problem that I don't quite grok: what do you put in our fstab inorder to have your root filesystem on one of these? Is it /dev/hda, or something like /dev/hde1 ? ( I have no other ide drives ).

Regards,

TOm



On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 11:31:55PM -0800, Chris Waters wrote:
> 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.
> -- 
> Chris Waters   xtifr@dsp.net | I have a truly elegant proof of the
>       or    xtifr@debian.org | above, but it is too long to fit into
>                              | this .signature file.