On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 03:04:11PM -0600, vinai wrote: > Hi, > > I did try the new floppy images, but due to issues with my video card > not liking any video modes that the kernel wants to seem to enforce, > I could not get those to work. The floppy kernel images would boot my > 8500, but as soon as the kernel would start to boot, the video would > disappear, and the machine would reboot a few minutes later.
This is nothing new though, and was present already in the normal d-i floppy-2.4 images, right ? Did you try the floppy ones or the floppy-2.4 ones ? > I did try a couple of the initrd images, but I could not get any to > work either, probably (my guess) because you need a matching kernel > to work these ramdisk images ? Will any of these images work with a > kernel compiled from the 2.4.27 kernel.org sources ? No chance. But if you have a running linux install on it, you could try installing the 2.4.27 packages, and use quik/bootx to boot it. Should work, and this is really the test i am after. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
