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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Fri, 25 Nov 2005, David Moberg wrote:

> On 11/25/05, sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:
>
> > Was this kernel compiled to work with my vendor/product ID?
>
> Yes.

That means you typed those numbers into the source code, I presume.
Oh, well.  I wonder why it worked in XP.

> > > > It also cannot mount an msdos disk, does not support msdos file
> > > > system.
> > >
> > > Try -t vfat instead of -t msdos.
> >
> > Okay.  In BL3 I can mount -t msdos for my DOS floppy disks.
>
> No msdos support (to save a little space). vfat is the same thing
> with a few extensions.
>
> > Next project is to get this kernel into a 1 or 2-floppy linux to keep with
> > the Compact Flash camera for travelling.  I will attempt this myself.

> Good luck. You will want to modify the initrd and add lilo so that the
> floppy will boot straight into the initrd. You will probably want to add
> a bigger BusyBox at minimum.

> David

Do you think a 1-floppy BL3 would be feasible here?  (Type Ctrl-C to not 
add the X stuff, since it won't work with this kernel anyway).  Then also 
carry around a 2-floppy with X to actually view the photos with xli.

I thought busybox was somewhere outside of the kernel - why add a bigger 
one?

I will use the second of the USB kernels, with vfat support and initrd for 
loop boot.

We are going to replace the Compaq which does not boot this kernel (and 
also does not print to inkjet, or work more than 1/3 of the time with USB, 
and stops booting linux if you switch between onboard and added video 
card, and needed hdparm for the hard drive not to reset, and is a real 
pain to work on because it is so small, and has the most miserly CMOS I 
have ever seen with no way to disable USB).  475MHz Super Socket 7 type 
AMD-K6/2 and 6GB hard drive and 192MB RAM are the useful parts of this 
curbside find (which was only 3 years old at the time and also had a dead 
floppy drive and no drive cage).  Onboard sound works.  I think we have 
had enough education from it.  Two 'new' ASUS boards boot from ZIP or LAN 
and can even do CDROM,A,C instead of just CDROM,C,A.  I recommend against 
Compaq for linux if this one is typical.  The Compaq laptop has 
non-standard video that needed special modelines and one dead USB port and 
dead floppy drive.  (Not that HP or Gateway are necessarily better - 
broken hinge, no PLIP;  no loop in 2.2.16 but may work in 2.2.26).

What brands of motherboard work well or badly for other list members for 
BL?