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Debian Bugs information: logs for Bug#30780 (fwd)



Hi All,

Does potato support booting from these devices (superdisks)?


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                       Debian) bug report logs - #30780
                        Boot floppy support for LS/120?
                                       
   Package: boot-floppies; Reported by: Steve McIntyre
   <stevem@chiark.greenend.org.uk>; merged with #30984; dated Wed, 16 Dec
   1998 15:48:01 GMT; Maintainer for boot-floppies is Enrique Zanardi
   <debian-boot@lists.debian.org>.
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Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1999 08:16:09 +0000 (GMT)
From: Steve McIntyre <stevem@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
X-Sender: steve@hammer.mossbank.org.uk
To: Adam Di Carlo <adam@onshore.com>
cc: debian-testing@lists.debian.org, 30780@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Booting a Compaq 120MB floppy
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On 3 Jan 1999, Adam Di Carlo wrote:

>Steve said:
>> Yes, /dev/hdc on this machine. Sorry, I should have been clearer -
>> when I said missing /dev/fd0, I meant that the boot-floppy script
>> would be looking for a device on /dev/fd0 and wouldn't find one
>> there. If you like I can find out what needs to be done to write a
>> boot-floppy on the LS/120 and send you a patch...
>
>Steve, I think that would be wonderful.  Let me know if you need help
>getting acccess to sources.  The 2.1.4 source version of the package
>is pretty much a good base to work from; or CVS if you're really
>ripping stuff up (would hope not).  Hopefully we can do it in a pretty
>robust way.  I'm not really clear on what is happening here -- does
>the device look like /dev/fd0 at initial boot (i.e., bios access) and
>then later becomes /dev/hdc ?

I guess so, but it's a weird /dev/hdc to say the least - it reports two
sizes...! I'll have a closer look and get back to you, but it may take a
few days as this is on a friend's machine, not my own. I don't do IDE
normally, it feels so _dirty_ :-)
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