Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 3 Jun 1999 10:12:42 -0700 (PDT) | | From | David Lang <> | | Subject | Re: 2.3 wish: integrate pcmcia into mainstream kernel |
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On Thu, 3 Jun 1999 yodaiken@chelm.cs.nmt.edu wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 02, 1999 at 03:42:01PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > If you think I'm going to use a floppy to boot up an operating system > > with, you're wrong. It makes perfect sense to just boot up the kernel, and > > start installation from the CD. > > > > Except it doesn't work unless you can read the CD. Which you can't with > > the current PCMCIA approach. > > How do you boot up the kernel from CD if you can't read the cd? >
The situation isthat the bios can see the CD, boots from it, but then the kernel can't see the CD to continue the install.
David Lang
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