I'm completely unable to boot from these floppies on a machine which has an ATAPI floppy drive. For the record, these same disks successfully ran on a machine with a legacy floppy device. These are the default disk images under disks-i386/current/disks-1.44
First, floppy device is hardcoded in syslinux as /dev/fd0. Second, ATAPI floppy support isn't compiled into the kernel the floppy uses. Third, after compiling a kernel with ATAPI floppy support (and hopefully everything else the boot kernel needed) i'm not prompted to insert a disk with the ramdisk image. The kernel always panics unable to mount /, not surprisingly. Do we have any hopes of performing a FLOPPY (not having a CD to bootstrap) install in Potato, either something with boot/root on the same device, or somehow getting the kernel to load ramdisk from a (perhaps unspecified) IDE or SCSI device? Currently I'm unable to install onto this machine, and I'm loath to install Slink and upgrade. Anyway, once I get this machine set up, I'm going to be seeing about making a single LS120 bootable install image. But as it could turn out to be rather hard to write the image to LS media, I consider being able to boot from 1.44MB floppies to be a higher priority. And if it's possible (not a kernel issue) I'd like to get it fixed in time for release. -- Ferret -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
