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["Jason Chall" <shaggychall AT yahoo.com>]

So I managed to get BL3 installed on my 80 GB HD. However since the BIOS
doesn't recognize the HD I can't boot directly from it. I can boot the HD
fine from a the BL3 floppy, but I don't want to have that attached for the
final installation. I have an 8 MB Solid State Disk but I can't get Linux to
recognize that but I have DOS installed on it. I can get loadlin to start
linux on the HD using the zimage from the /boot directory on the HD but for
some reason it asks me to "Insert floppy disk for loading into RAMDISK" If i
just hit enter with nothing in the floppy drive it finishes booting no
problem. How can I boot with loadlin without having any user intervention.

Thanks,
Jason

-----Original Message-----
From: baslinux-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:baslinux-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org]On Behalf Of David Moberg
Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 8:28 PM
To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: RE: [BL] BL3 Floppy Version, Crashes when HD is attached


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason Chall" <shaggychall AT yahoo.com>

> Regarding how the SSD is accessed, according to the manual "The PCM-4862
> features an internal Flash/ROM disk drive. This drive emulates a floppy
disk
> drive by using solid-state memory
> chips".

<---snip--->

> Under linux the SSD does not show up under fdisk.

Try various IDE drives, for instance
fdisk /dev/hdb
fdisk /dev/hdc
and so on.

If it doesn't show up that way, it may be useless, unless you
can get it to work with SCSI/USB/other modules (those kinds of
devices are not accessed with hda/hdb/hdc IDE device names, but
instead SCSI device names such as sda/sdb).

David
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