On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 03:04:11PM -0600, vinai wrote:
I did try the new floppy images, but due to issues with my video card
not liking any video modes that the kernel wants to seem to enforce,
I could not get those to work. The floppy kernel images would boot my
8500, but as soon as the kernel would start to boot, the video would
disappear, and the machine would reboot a few minutes later.
This is nothing new though, and was present already in the normal d-i
floppy-2.4 images, right ? Did you try the floppy ones or the floppy-2.4
ones ?
I did try a couple of the initrd images, but I could not get any to
work either, probably (my guess) because you need a matching kernel
to work these ramdisk images ? Will any of these images work with a
kernel compiled from the 2.4.27 kernel.org sources ?
No chance.
But if you have a running linux install on it, you could try installing
the 2.4.27 packages, and use quik/bootx to boot it. Should work, and
this is really the test i am after.