Re: kernel boot args (was Re: laoding drivers (floppy-boot))

2001-06-21 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Ethan Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: so you finally got it booting via quik? what configuration did that require? nope, not yet :) I am still booting with a miboot floppy hacked with resedit. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]URL:http://www.onshored.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

kernel boot args (was Re: laoding drivers (floppy-boot))

2001-06-20 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Ethan Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 10:16:07PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: Well, quik has certain boot args. I would assume yaboot would too. yes.. Just has to be handled on a boot-loader by boot-loader basis, I guess. The option shouldn't appear if

Re: kernel boot args (was Re: laoding drivers (floppy-boot))

2001-06-20 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 02:34:03PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: Gross or not, my powerbook G3 is effectively unbootable with the vmode=atyfb... bootargs. So it kinda *has* to be done, IMHO. so you finally got it booting via quik? what configuration did that require? -- Ethan Benson

Re: laoding drivers (floppy-boot)

2001-06-14 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 10:16:07PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: Well, quik has certain boot args. I would assume yaboot would too. yes.. Just has to be handled on a boot-loader by boot-loader basis, I guess. The option shouldn't appear if it doesn't work at all on the boot-loaders for a

Re: laoding drivers (floppy-boot)

2001-06-13 Thread Adam Di Carlo
David Whedon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is very confusing... We shoudl remove this question entirely and replace it with an alternative selection the user could run *before* running configure drivers, just like configure pcmcia is an alternative there can do, looks like

Re: laoding drivers (floppy-boot)

2001-06-13 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 02:44:29PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: 'Edit Kernel Boot ...' will still come up as alternate to 'Configure the Hostname' and 'Configure the Network' sometimes. Edit Kernel Boot... should be an alternative tot he Make system bootable, IMHO. hrm, how will that

Re: laoding drivers (floppy-boot)

2001-06-13 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Ethan Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 02:44:29PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: 'Edit Kernel Boot ...' will still come up as alternate to 'Configure the Hostname' and 'Configure the Network' sometimes. Edit Kernel Boot... should be an alternative tot he Make

Re: laoding drivers (floppy-boot)

2001-06-12 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Michael Bramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 03:40:22PM +0200, Juerg Oehler wrote: with these floppies i booted and loaded the rescue successfully into RAM. when i got to the menu for loading additional drivers the system

Re: laoding drivers (floppy-boot)

2001-06-12 Thread David Whedon
This is very confusing... We shoudl remove this question entirely and replace it with an alternative selection the user could run *before* running configure drivers, just like configure pcmcia is an alternative there can do, looks like we'll have 3 alternates on some archs Next:

laoding drivers (floppy-boot)

2001-06-11 Thread Juerg Oehler
hi, i was having a look at debian distribution after working with suse and hat. first i loaded the installation guide down and studyed the hole thing. there is pretty information to find. then i loaded all the floppy images from stable/main/distr-i386/current/images-1.44. after that i put the

Re: laoding drivers (floppy-boot)

2001-06-11 Thread Eric Van Buggenhaut
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 03:40:22PM +0200, Juerg Oehler wrote: hi, i was having a look at debian distribution after working with suse and hat. first i loaded the installation guide down and studyed the hole thing. ^^ I