From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tim Riker Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2000 19:06:16 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] booting? or is this list dead? ;-) Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org Note: I can't seem to reach MX hpl.hp.com from here? ahhh rescue. Didn't think of that one. Doesn't the included CD read CD-RW, or at least CD-R? Couln't you have tested with one of those? That's what we do here and then we ship the CD-R to mastering. Also /etc/fstab has /dev/hdc1 in it. ;-( should just be /dev/hdc David Mosberger wrote: > > >>>>> On Tue, 8 Feb 2000 00:41:15 -0800 (PST), Goutham Rao said: > > Goutham> It will depend on your system configuration... if all you > Goutham> have on IDE is the ls120 and CD, then I think the CD would > Goutham> be /dev/hdc so you should be able to use "eli > Goutham> root=/dev/hdc" > > Don't forget to specify the "rescue" option---otherwise, the boot will > get stuck halfway through. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to document > this option in README.IA-64 because I didn't know if the CD-ROM is > actually bootable until we had the master (and then it was too late to > update the README and make a new master...). > > --david > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-ia64 mailing list > Linux-ia64@linuxia64.org > http://lists.linuxia64.org/lists/listinfo/linux-ia64 -- Tim Riker - http://rikers.org/ - short SIGs! All I need to know I could have learned in Kindergarten ... if I'd just been paying attention.