July 8, 2002 09:13 am, John Richard Smith wrote: <big snip> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > >What did I miss John? The append=line is shown in the output above > > Well I asumed that the append=hdd=ide-scsi was your writer. > This is your rom? > if not then depending upon your master ,slave relationship,you can add > another > line hd(x)=ide-scsi (where x = the ide device letter for your rom) > and writer programmes like xcdroast will recognise your rom drive as > well as your writer. If on the otherhand hdd is just a writer,but also > used as your rom as well, and you don't have another rom device, which > quite a few people do these days,then what you have is enough.
Ah, OK. I get it now. I have both and I see why you suggested that now. There are other devices as well (4x60 GB hard drives, a CD/DVD-ROM combination, assorted other doodads.:-) )but I'll figure out the correct append= lines after I get caught up on a few things. It amazes me how much clearer things are this morning after 3 hours of sleep. Thanks. > > >I suppose the labelling would get weird if I added a few more kernels but > > I seriously doubt that will happen. With just the two I don't have a > > problem knowing which I'm booting, and the newest one _is set as > > default_. > > > >It's probably good advice anyway though. > > Well that's quite correct, but I started out thinking that way and > during the course of 12 months I found myself with more than 2 > kernels.Issues of security came up. > > One thing that did interest me, was why the multiple symlinks, if this > because of some non standard mandrake kernel version. There are non standard kernel versions too. Including a (broken) tainted (NVidia) kernel that isn't really there any more. Mostly sloppy housekeeping on my part. That's the sum total of it. Have you noticed there aren't enough hours for all the *projects*? :-) > > When I boot different kernels I also specify each initrd image to boot > like this:- > > initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.18-6mdk.img, > as you have done with one example. > > The stanza for the second or third kernels have the same theme but the > initrd version changes with each, and when I ran the mandrake install > rpm it put the correct initrd version in the /boot directory(which is > also a /boot partition) for me > which made it easy to specify. I thought this takes care of the booting > procedures. I therefore do not entirely understand your arangements, in > creating the additional symlinks, cause I came in a little way into this > thread and I have missed the point. > Just curious, > > John It's probably just the fact that there's _nothing_ standard about this machine or myself. The points of commonality shared amongst kernel versions/distributions, other than the two shown, is hda9 (/home) and hdb. hdb has an /archive, and a /store. The /archive is where back-ups go and how I restore from some of my stupid experiments. /store is just image files, my ogg collection; I hate chasing Cds all over and my kids have a tendency to swipe them when they leave after a visit. Some day I'll learn a bit about GNU/Linux. Then I'll really be able to break it. ;) Thanks again for the excellent advice. -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org "...a most excellent barbarian ... Genghis Kahn!" -- _Bill And Ted's Excellent Adventure_
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