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Re: Booting from PCMCIA CD-ROM



On Sun, 6 Jan 2002 18:37:54 -0700
Chris Tillman <tillman@azstarnet.com> wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Is this i386-specific?

Hell, I think it's even *device*-specific.

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