I'm adding ATAPI CD-ROM driver and ISO-9660 filesystem to FILO.
So far, RedHat 9 installation CD-ROM boots with FILO commandline like: boot: hdc:/isolinux/vmlinuz initrd=hdc:/isolinux/initrd.img (hdc is my CD-ROM drive). It sometimes fails to detect my USB mouse, but the fullscreen graphical installer is working beautifully on my EPIA 5000. :) (I'm using VGABIOS. I didn't try a PS/2 mouse since it is reported to not work on EPIA).
Before RedHat I tried KNOPPIX 3.3. It uses El Torito floppy emulation and I already added the code to mount the El Torito floppy image. It boots, but hangs during the device detection phase I think. Perhaps it expects the video is already switched to graphical mode by the realmode part of Linux, which we don't execute.
I have already downloaded SuSE and Debian iso images, but I ran out of my coasters.
Anyway, guys, this is fun. :) I'll release FILO 0.4 when some cleanup work is done. Current CD driver is hackish and has an issue with media detection.
On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 04:42:35AM +0900, SONE Takeshi wrote:
Before RedHat I tried KNOPPIX 3.3. It uses El Torito floppy emulation and I already added the code to mount the El Torito floppy image. It boots, but hangs during the device detection phase I think.
I succeeded to boot KNOPPIX 3.3 with this FILO command line: boot: hdc1:/vmlinuz initrd=hdc1:/miniroot.gz noagp noapic These options skip some parts of auto-detection.
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SONE Takeshi