Sorry for being late, but today I had the first chance to download 6.3 since I received your answer.
Tested "linux hda=remap63" Worked fine with the old 6.2.5. Worked not fine with x86-6.3-r2052. It hangs while booting. I have got the following output at the screen: "Freeing unused kernel memory: 220k freed input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as class/input/input0 Clocksource tsc unstable (delta = 99897789 ns) Time: pit clocksource has been installed. LFS LiveCD not found. Retry attempt 1 of 5... failed! Retry attempt 2 of 5... failed! Retry attempt 3 of 5... failed! Retry attempt 4 of 5... failed! Retry attempt 5 of 5... failed! LFS LiveCD could not found its device, perhaps due to unsupported or undetected hardware. Or maybe this is just a slow SCSI or USB controller that needs more time to settle (workaround: add rootdelay=30 to the kernel command line in the boot loader)." Then it drops me to sh where I am quite helpless because there is no ls, no less and no more available. The CD drive should be at /dev/hdb where it is found by the 6.2.5 and other distros. This happens with and without hda=remap63. I tried different other boot parameters which seemed to me more or less relevant: linux hda=remap63 rootdelay=30 -> no difference linux hda=remap63 rootdelay=200 -> no difference linux hda=remap63 all_generic_ide -> After "Time: pit clocksource has been installed." the following is displayed: "ide_setup: hda=remap63 Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed fpr PIO modes; override with idebus=xx ide0: generic PnP IDE interface LFS LiveCD not found. Retry attempt ..." linux all_generic_ide -> same as with linux hda=remap63 all_generic_ide but without the line "ide_setup: hda=remap63" The problem looks very different from the original, when the CD booted well and the kernel did only not detect the disk manager. So it seems to me as if the new problem arises due to the really old hardware. To be completely sure I would like to test it with one of my old HDDs without the disk manager. Unfortunately it is just the disk manager which enables the computer to boot from CD. So, at this state of affairs I cannot say wether "linux hda=remap63" works with 6.3. If you are interested in fixing these new problems with that old hardware I will try to test possible solutions. If you are (understandably) not I will go on with the 6.2.5. Test configuration: Notebook Compaq LTE 5300 133MHz RAM 80 MB HDD Samsung MP0402H 40 GB Ontrack Disk Manager ver. 10.42.04 Thanks, Martin. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/livecd FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
