Cool, thank you for the test. I think I will fall back and go with the ide-->cf adaptor. That will take a few days to come in. After that I will be looking to get linuxbios installed on my EPIA-MII.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Smith" smithbone@gmail.com To: "Adam Sulmicki" adam@cfar.umd.edu Cc: "Adam Talbot" talbotx@comcast.net; linuxbios@clustermatic.org Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2005 6:44 PM Subject: Re: Build error on the EPIA-M
it was my understanding that the reason the pcmcia/cardbus stuff got integrated into kernel in the first place was to support booting from
such
devices.
I believe you are correct but I seem to remember that it will only be posible via early userspace due to the database lookup cardmgr has to do.
I just did a test with my adapter. I compiled bot the bridge driver and the ide-cs into my 2.6.10 kernel, moved cardmgr to cardmgr.norun and re-booted. The bridge was found but the ide-cs device was not. Running /sbin/cardmgr.norun by hand enabled the ide-cs like normal. So looks to me like its still dependent on cardmgr.
-- Richard A. Smith