Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 30 Sep 2001 10:08:00 -0700 (PDT) | From | Joel Jaeggli <> | Subject | Re: boot/root floppies in modern times? |
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a number of new laptops have pci ethernet interfaces on mini-pci cards... on both an hp omnibook 500 (3com 9xx), and a thinkpad x20 (intel) I've done a network install of redhat 7.1 using the single bootnet floppy.
regards joelja
On Sun, 30 Sep 2001, Ookhoi wrote:
> Hi Chris, > > > I got a new Thinkpad, it doesn't have an internal floppy drive. Instead > > it has a USB floppy. It can boot from the floppy just fine, I can get my > > custom boot disk's kernel loaded. But when it comes to loading the root > > image I run into trouble. > > I had the same problem with my vaio c1ve. Only a usb floppy drive, and > no way to let it read the second floppy disk or to make it mount root > via nfs as the nic got active after the bootp requests. > > I solved this by using one floppy with a initrd with enough tools to > download the drivers which were not in the kernel (for example usb & > scsi, or ide). You then just download the modules plus insmod on your > ramdisk and of you go. > > Hope this helps! > > Ookhoi > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
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