From: gareth@gblinux.demon.co.uk (Gareth Bult) Subject: Re: Yggdrasil cdrom problem booting Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1993 11:50:45 GMT
On 2 Oct 1993 16:53:16 GMT;
----Frederick J. Goodrum (frgoodrum@delphi.com) said:
>
>I purchased Yggdrasil CDROM and am trying to install linux in the
>cd_dependent mode (my hard drive is to small for the other versions)
>I Cannot boot from the hard drive however as the kernel (sic?) cannot find
>my CDROM.
Which version of the CD?
There are 2 usual causes;
1) You do not have your CD on the correct hardware settings.
you need base address 300 and IRQ 5 by default.
2) Newer drives have nasty firmware that breaks the driver.
If you only have boot floppy rev B, you need rev C.
>According to the online doc I have to recompile linux setting the ISO-9660
>flag. The is great if I can fit the sources on my pc. but according to the
>doc that ain't gonna happen. This sounds like a chicken and egg problem.
>question: Is there a minimal group of source files I can copy to my hard
>drive to perform the recompile?
>Should I request an updated CDROM (I thought the floppies and the CD
>would be in sync)?
>Thanks in advance
The ISO9660 filesystem is compiled into the yggdrasil kernel when you get
it.. otherwise you could never load the thing could you?
:)
Gareth.