Re: working on the Alpha port
Falk Hueffner <falk.hueffner@student.uni-tuebingen.de> writes:
> Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> writes:
>
>> > ML> Alexander Kotelnikov <sacha@debian.org> writes:
>> > >> I have faced a problem with booting from two disks. The trouble seems
>> > >> to be in Herbert's kernel, since mine boots and loads debian-installer
>> > >> initrd image.
>> > ML> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD=m
>> > ML>
>> > ML> I guess that is the problem.
>> >
>> > Ah.. almost sure it is.
>>
>> What boot loader are you using? It should be loading the initrd, not
>> the kernel.
Does syslinux support that? Never saw it anywhere.
Note that we're wanting to load the initrd from a second disk,
so the boot loader would need to support disk-change and so on...
> Shouldn't it be compiled in anyway? People might want to load
> additional drivers/plugins/whatever from floppy.
Yes, floppy-retriever on a net-1440 floppy would be
useful IMHO.
Just dumping a udeb on a floppy seems like a convenient
way to load additional drivers and such.
--
CYa,
Mario
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