LinuxBIOS + FILO boots RedHat 9 CD-ROM

SONE Takeshi ts1 at tsn.or.jp
Wed Oct 15 15:11:01 CEST 2003


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. 

-- 
Takeshi



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