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Re: Booting from PCMCIA CD-ROM



On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 09:05:32PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> Chris,
> 
> Can you please add a note to the documentation about booting from a
> PCMCIA CD-ROM.  While you can load the kernel just fine, you will
> later have a problem since PCMCIA is not loaded and the rest cannot be
> read from CD.  There's an easy solution, though.  When you pass
> ide2=0x180,0x386 to the kernel, the PCMCIA CD-ROM is recognized as a
> normal IDE CD-ROM which can then be mounted.  Can you please document
> this trick in chapter 5.2.
> 
> Thanks.
> -- 
> Martin Michlmayr
> tbm@cyrius.com

Is this i386-specific?

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