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  • From: "David Moberg" <davidjmoberg AT lycos.com>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] hd problem
  • Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 17:08:05 -0500

----- Original Message -----
From: "sindi keesan" <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>

> I was not asked any kernel config questions about PCMCIA - why?

PCMCIA drivers for older kernels were distributed apart from the
kernel. The pcmcia-cs package @ <http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net>
contains kernel drivers/modules as well as the cardmgr utility to
load them.

> Maybe my messed-up partition table had nothing to do with linux and vfat.
> Could be that part of the drive is just going bad. (I hope not, it
> is a large - 1.2G - drive, but I guess 540 should be enough for DOS
> without Win98). If the boot sector area is bad, is there some
> workaround?

Doubtful.

> I eventually started to get 'interrupt' type error messages in
> linux even when booted from floppy drive - it apparently does some
> maintenance on hda (DOS). Is there some way to boot linux and tell
> it to ignore hda? (I could disable it in CMOS in order to use
> linux to compile with).

Hmmm. Add the boot parameter hda=none (or append="hda=none")?

David
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