Re: Woody is bootable? (was: Sarge is bootalbe?)

[Nick Bailey <n.j.bailey@elec.gla.ac.uk>]

Oh, you mean actually *read* the manual, not just print it out, and put 
it in a ring binder on the shelf? It hasn't even got any pictures! :)

Well, I stand corrected.

Sorry.

Nick/

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Mike Renfro wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 09:14:01AM +0100, Nick Bailey wrote:
>
>  
>
> > However, the last time I tried to install from a woody boot CDRom, I
> > couldn't. It wouldn't mount SCSI disks so you couldn't get anywhere
> > unless / was on an IDE device. Perhaps there is/was a way around
> > this, but I failed to find it.
> >    
>
> Sections 5.2 and 4.2.2 of the Woody install manual, perhaps? Says that
> 'idepci' is the default kernel on CD #1 if you make no other choice,
> but it also contains 'vanilla', 'compact', and 'bf2.4' kernels.
>
> If you happened to try the idepci kernel on a SCSI-only machine,
> you'll *definitely* have problems like you described. I suppose the
> reason idepci is the default is that some machines would hang while
> certain SCSI drivers were loading.
>
> http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/i386/ch-rescue-boot.en.html#s-install-cd
> http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/i386/ch-install-methods.en.html#s-kernel-choice
>
>  

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