On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, Bryan Daniels wrote:
> I have an old(er) Gateway Solo, with a broken CD-ROM. > I have been trying to install Debian Linux 2.2 Rev_4 > off of floppy disks. I am very close, but not quite > there. I am attemping to install 'idepci_2.2.19'. I > have copied the images for rescue.bin and root.bin on > to two floppies and know that they work by testing on > another unit. > > I can boot and rescue.bin works. I can't, however, get > root.bin to load as the ramdisk. I think that my > problem is that my 'floppy-drive' is actually an > 'ide-drive' instead. It is recognized by the > rescue.bin as (LS-120 SLIM 05 UDH Floppy, ATAPI Floppy > drive) and is mapped to hdd with partitions > hdd1..hdd4. I am trying to find the right parmaters to > give at the 'root: prompt'. I have read the 'HOWTO > BootPrompt' but don't have the paramaters down yet. I > have tried 'linux root=/dev/hdd', 'linux > floppy=/dev/hdd', and many more. So far no good. I've never tried to install debian from floppies, but I have a LS120 as well. Did you try root=/dev/hdd1 ? since it is handled as a IDE-ATAPI-devices, like a hard drive. hdd=ide-floppy sounds, right from my memory as a good option as well. give it a try... Is it possible, that IDE-FLOPPY-support is not compiled (either in the kernel or as ide-floppy.o) into the boot binary root.bin ? Gurus, where are you? cheers, tobias.
