On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 14:14 +0800, bxshi wrote:
ie. CD-ROM device is to be specified as "hdc1" and not "hdc"!
I installed one IDE HDD and one IDE CD-ROM and use filo in etherboot . Filo recognize the IDE hdd as hda, and the Cd-rom as hdb. in Config file I specify: AUTOBOOT_FILE = "hdb:/isolinux/vmlinuz initrd=/isolinux/initrd.img expert nofb acpi=off devfs=nomount #ramdisk_size=65536 console=ttyS0,115200"
it installs OS well . it seems we don't need to specify CDROM to hdb1 .hdb works well.
I'm working for the "boot:" prompt of file-0.5 & it does require the specific designation of "hdc1" (or other device file with a numeral 1 as the suffix) to be probed properly from the "boot:" prompt. As well as, the filo-0.5/Config file).
However, you are right, If you'll notice in my Filo output, Filo is automagically probing both my cdrom drives with only one CD-ROM drive being designated. :-)
I'm planning on playing with some of my Atmel and DOC2000(MD2802) flash devices in a couple of days after I solder an extension wires w/ wirewraps from my motherboard 32 Pin DIP/TSOP socket. So, I'll follow-up on this once I'm able to flash w/o issues of yanking PCI cards out of my motherboards to provide space for a ziff socket.
From your notes, I'm speculating too Filo is probably working ok and it
might just be having issues under the Qemu emulator.
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