Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 3 Jun 1999 10:32:31 -0600 | From | yodaiken@chelm ... | Subject | Re: 2.3 wish: integrate pcmcia into mainstream kernel |
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On Thu, Jun 03, 1999 at 10:12:42AM -0700, David Lang 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.
Excuse my stupidity, but I understood David Hinds to be saying that often the bios did not know how to deal with cardbus. Is this discussion only about systems where the bios understands? So the problem is that the bios sets things up fine, but Linux cannot appropriately use that information?
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