On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 10:59:21AM -0800, Steve Isaacs wrote: > I'm puzzled about the difference between these options. If I want to > boot using an IDE device does the following make sense? > > ## Boot linux from IDE > default CONFIG_IDE=1 > default CONFIG_FS_STREAM=1 > default CONFIG_FS_EXT2=1 > default CONFIG_FS_ISO9660=1 > default CONFIG_FS_FAT=1 > default AUTOBOOT_CMDLINE="hda1:/vmlinuz" > > I found these in mainboard/momentum/apache and am wondering if I can use > them as is for my board.
Where is this from? There's no such board in LinuxBIOS, AFAICS. > Am I correct in interpreting this as: Use the IDE interface to boot > which can contain an EXT2 or ISO9660 (CDROM) or FAT file system? (This > is what I want -- simply boot Linux using the ATA drive connected to the > IDE interface). I'm currently able to boot this way using a proprietary > BIOS and want to do the same using LinuxBIOS. You want to use the latest FILO version from svn, see http://linuxbios.org/Filo Which board and chipset is this btw? Uwe. -- http://www.hermann-uwe.de | http://www.holsham-traders.de http://www.crazy-hacks.org | http://www.unmaintained-free-software.org -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
