On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 11:23:55AM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: > On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 11:22:39AM -0500, Jay Estabrook wrote: > > > No, I could not find it in the config system, though to be honest I > > > haven't looked closely and may have missed something obvious. > > > > Well, it looks like some patches went into RC1 for the SYM_2 driver; > > since I had no problems with stock 2.6.0 and SYM_2, any chance you > > could try that instead? > > I can... perhaps I'll try 2.6.1 first though and see what that does.
Shouldn't be much different, but better the actual release... > It was always my understanding that once booted, the console in use > wouldn't matter. Is that understanding correct? Console won't matter, but with SRM, you get so-called SRM PALcode, which is more stable and more complete than the EBSDK PALcode one gets from MILO. > Also, I also thought that I would have to repartition my disks to > switch consoles; is that correct as well? That is correct; at least the one you wish to boot from, which could be a floppy, or network (BOOTP), or old/small IDE, instead of the SCSI one(s). --Jay++ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jay A Estabrook HPTC - LINUX support Hewlett-Packard Company - MRO1-2/K15 (508) 467-2080 200 Forest Street, Marlboro MA 01752 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
