Re: [phil@bolthole.com: Re: HPT366 install disks: do we have them?]
Petr Cech <cech@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> writes:
> it should probably go here and not to d-devel.
> From: phil@bolthole.com (Philip Brown)
> Subject: Re: HPT366 install disks: do we have them?
> Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 01:21:45 -0800 (PST)
>
>
> I was going to stop after the last email, but I found something
> interesting:
>
> If you use the (potato) udma66 floppy images, do a system install, and then
> choose "make a boot floppy"...
>
> that floppy WILL NOT WORK, to boot off an hpt/udma66 drive.
>
> You have to change the syslinux.cfg to add the appropriate
> APPEND ide2=0x####,0x####
> hack.
>
> ( then it presumably wont be using the proper HPT updated driver, but at
> least you can get to the hpt drive again)
Hmmm. Is this a boot-floppies bug? Should we append stuff from
/proc/cmdline to the syslinux.cfg file?
> and since I'm replying publically after all now;
>
> [ Petr Cech writes ]
> > IIRC there is such script in every flavour dir
> > there is a toplever install.bat, but ther are also
> > {compact,idepci,udma66}/install.bat batch files to boot the correct
> > kernel/root images
>
> but that is not user-friendly at all. There should be a *single* unified
> .bat file at the top level, that prompts the user, with a brief
> explaination as to why there is a choice.
Not a bad idea if there were any batch hackers to do it.
You should probably turn this into two wishlist bugs.
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.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
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