From: evansmp@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Mark Evans) Subject: Re: IBM PS/2 (not clone) Disk Controller - registers needed for Linux Date: 27 May 1992 10:45:37 GMT
grweiss@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Gregory R. Weiss) writes:
:
: After being frustrated at not being able to run Linux on the PS/2s here
: at school (I don't have a computer here!), I found out that IBM's PS/2s use
: a different set of registers for accessing the hard disk controller.
: Linux doesn't work on any PS/2s apparently, because the hard disk driver
: in Linux only supports the clones.
:
: Does anyone know what registers IBM uses? Is anyone aware of a lookup/
: translation table between the IBM and clone HD controller mechanisms?
:
: BTW, the fact that the PS/2s can only run Linux off floppy should be in
: the FAQ for comp.os.linux in the section on "What do I need to run Linux."
:
Runs absolutly fine from floppy, both 3.5" and 5.25", also drivers the printer
ok, just completly ignores the hard disk.
Anyone got any ideas, if it is just a matter of different registers, then
adding a new device driver should work.
However getting the kernal sources, a c compiler, and the root file system onto
2 floppy disks is rather tricky.
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