ESDI Disk
I have an rather! old IBM Thinkpad Model 720. It has MCA architecture and the
disk is an ESDI disk, but no CDROM.
Now I try to install Debian Slink. I have all diskettes available and the sytem
boots OK. The PS/2 ESDI driver seems to initialize correctly and shows as last
line:
eda: eda1 eda2 eda3
I assume that eda1 is my old DOS, while eda2 and eda3 are the Linux ext2 and
Linux Swap partitions (which I have created before).
When the dbootstrap script gets control still eveything is fine: color,
keyboard, network (which is n/a at this machine).
However, the installation constantly refused to continue, because it can not
find any disk in the system.
When I shell-out and check /dev, I can not see any /dev/eda or /dev/eda1
devices. Are there devices missing? Which? How can I create them?
Is is sufficient to do this an the ash shell and continue installation or has
the root.bin to be changed? Am I right, if I assume that the resc1440.bin does
not exactly fit to the root.bin in my sitution?
What do I have to do? I have another system running where I can compile a kernel
or something else, if this woulld help!
Best Regards / Mit freundlichen Grüßen Roland Oberle
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