From: savages@instruction.CS.ORST.EDU (Shaun Savage) Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1993 09:47:56 -0700 Message-Id: <9307051647.AA17763@prism.CS.ORST.EDU> Subject: Re: IN2000 driver
you can anonymous ftp a boot image from ucs.orst.edu:/tmp/incoming.
you will need to get SLS a1 disk as a root.
from dos rawrite the boot image on one disk and the SLS a1 disk to another disk
boot off the zImage disk and when it ask for the rootinsert the a1 disk
Now you should have access to your in2000 SCSI drives.
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there was one problem: the zImage disk with the in2000 kernel asks for
the standard a1 disk to mount as root. so no way to get the harddisk
mounted as root. with a 5 1/4 and a 3 1/2 floppy it was not possible
to change the root drive on the zImage boot disk. (i boot with the 5 1/4
in drive A:)
this was the trick: go to system setup and make both floppies 5 1/4 inch.
format a 3 1/2 floppy as 1.2 mb disk. rawwrite the zImage to this disk
and with linux running make "rdev /dev/fd1h1200 /dev/sda?". (sda? is
your root-partition on disk). return to dos and make a diskcopy b: a:
now you have the in2000 kernel mounting your harddisk as root partition.
(do it after! you have installed the system).
don't forget to change your setup back to 3 1/2 floppy.
if your boot disk is 3 1/2 inch, maybe you have to do some more work.
if there is a better way let me know.
aku
kugel@mp-sun1.informatik.uni-mannheim.de