Miro,
I see - I must admit I never tried booting large kernels and initrds since my CT60 stopped booting in a reasonable video mode. I'll have to give that another try sometime.On Fri, 17 Jul 2026 at 03:51, Michael Schmitz <schmitzmic@gmail.com> wrote:AFAIR the CT60 came with a patched version of ataboot/bootstrap that would have contained the cache flush patch.
That's true but as mentioned, it wouldn't let you boot anything which requires more than ~6.5 MB of ST RAM for the staging area.
Good to know - not sure what else I had bookmarked that failed to load then.The CT60 web pages appear to have gone away - can't check what version could be downloaded there anymore.
They didn't: http://didier.mequignon.free.fr. Its CT60 section offers 2.2.25 (vanilla debian) and 2.4.25 (patched/ with the one off bugfix).
Does the installer find the IDE disk drive at all? I wonder if the ISO scanning issues are down to the kernel using a different host adapter driver (pata_falcon, not falconide) these days?
I wanted to post a separate email about it but since you have asked... ;) No, it doesn't (at least the image with 6.6.15 I tried). I had to extract and inject libata.ko.xz + pata_falcon.ko.xz from cdrom to hd-media initrd.gz, that made /dev/sda accessible. However not mountable because it seems that the kernel doesn't contain modules for msdosfs? So that's another task to tick off.
The vfat.ko module would also be needed then. I would have thought that's already in the initrd though.
Try loading that module explicitly and see what log messages you get. I don't remember having to use any special module options.
Cheers,
Michael