Re: Install Report, powerpc oldworld 2.3.6 dtd 6/21 06:11 (woody)
On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 10:35:04PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 03:21:20PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote:
> > These are some notes as I attempted to install the woody b-f.
> >
> > After selecting Partition a Hard Disk, an alert advised about there
> > being no need for a boot partition and "... and the root partition
> > must be on the first disk". I have had Debian installed on this
> > machine before, on the second external SCSI drive (address 6), so I
> > think this message might be in error? I'm not sure what the 'first
> > disk' would mean except only sda, not sdb or sdc.
>
> its for quik, many versions of OldWorld BrokenFirmware(TM) are
> incapable of booting from anything but the master IDE disk, im not
> sure if that matters on scsi or not, maybe we can kill the check for
> scsi systems.
Indeed, it's not at all true for SCSI. We should try not to complain
about booting off of any scsi disk.
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Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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