Norbert Preining <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi M�ns! > > On Fre, 22 Okt 2004, M�ns Rullg�rd wrote: >> > Thanks for the suggestion. I decided to take this route, put a small IDE >> > disk into the machine, and only get aboot, kernel and root-fs from >> > there. Anyting else will be done from SCSI disks. >> >> There is no problem having the root fs on the SCSI disks. Just pass >> root=/dev/sdXX to the kernel. > > So the aboot loader, the etc/aboot.conf and the kernel(s). That would be > not to bad. Would the following layout work: > > hda1:/etc/aboot.conf > hda1:/vmlinuz > > and in aboot.conf there is: > 0:1/vmlinuz ro root=/dev/sda1
That looks like it should work. >> > Finally I got it to work using the fix from Ivan Kokshaysky. >> > No I only need a SRM-bootp acceptable NIC for our second alpha ;-) >> >> The Digital Tulip series usually work well (surprise). They are >> getting rare these days, though. > > Hmm, this is the one that does not work here: > Linux Tulip driver version 0.9.15-pre12 (Aug 9, 2002) > tulip0: EEPROM default media type Autosense. > tulip0: Index #0 - Media MII (#11) described by a 21140 MII PHY (1) block. > tulip0: MII transceiver #0 config 0000 status 780d advertising 01e1. > eth0: Digital DS21140 Tulip rev 34 at 0xfffffc880a104000, 00:40:05:36:50:D4, > IRQ 25. I've used several tulip cards, never had a problem. What does lspci identify it as? -- M�ns Rullg�rd [EMAIL PROTECTED]
