Bug#2561: boot disk

["Peter Tobias" <tobias@server.et-inf.fho-emden.de>]

jeffreyj@ksu.ksu.edu wrote:
>      I apologize if this should not be sent to the bugs address.
> After having difficulty with redhat I downloaded the boot, root and base
> disks. On booting it stops at the line:
> IP Protocols ICMP UDP TCP
>
> I have a Packard Bell Pentium with a N2000 clone ethernet card.
> I am assumed my ethernet card was not being found.

The problem is indeed the N2000 card. If a different driver touches
the I/O base of the ne2000 it will hang the system bus. You can avoid
it by adding the correct address at the boot prompt. Just type

linux ether=11,0x340,eth0

at the (boot disk) boot prompt (if your N2000 card uses IRQ 11 and
I/O-address 0x340). You can later add it to your lilo.conf file. Just
add the line

append="ether=11,0x340,eth0"

to your lilo.conf file and rerun lilo. Or if you use it as a module just
add

options ne irq=11 io=0x340

to /etc/conf.modules.

Bruce, can you please add such an example (with ether=xxx) to the help
screens of the boot disk?


Peter

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