So, I've been tinkering with 4.2rc2 today.  The linuxboot hack for the
hard drive on hdc works fine.  I'm now able to fully run linuxboot on
these dell inspiron 5150 laptops.  The dos boot disk (4.2rc2) still has
major (failure) issues on these laptops (seems due to memory mgt).  I
have confirmed (as have others) that changes in 4.2rc2 have no effect on
the DOSemu linuxboot issues in vmware workstation 4.5.  However, note
that the linuxboot DOES work in vmware workstation 4.0.1 and vmware GSX
2.5.1!  I suspect it will similarly not work with GSX 3 (I don't have my
GSX 3 environment running quite yet. bummer).


-----Original Message-----
From: Patrick J. LoPresti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2004 11:26 PM
To: Scott Card
Subject: Re: 4.1a failure notes


"Scott Card" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> <chuckle> obviously I was keying in that output log segment by hand 
> (outlook autocorrect of hda to had)... It looks like the hard disk is 
> hdc and you are only looking for hda and sda?

Yeah.  Looks like they connected the primary hard drive to the secondary
IDE controller.  Not that there's anything wrong with that...

This is easy to hack around and harder to fix "right", since hdc is
usually a CD-ROM drive.  Still, I have uploaded a 4.2-rc2 which should
work for you to <http://unattended.sourceforge.net/testing/>.  Please
try its Linux boot disk and let me know how it goes.  (Don't forget to
refresh Z:\install\linuxaux.)

 - Pat


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