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  • From: Ken Martwick <kenm AT surfbest.net>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] BasicLinux-3.40
  • Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 20:30:54 -0800

The only HDD reported is /dev/hde which is correctly listed
as having four partitions.
I believe the "secondary" CDROMS are correctly listed as
/dev/hdc and /dev/hdd.
Ken Martwick

On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 04:10:59PM +0000, sindi keesan wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Jan 2006, Ken Martwick wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > I have installed the new BL-3.40 on a Gateway PII HDD
> > and it works flawlessly. Xvesa worke well "out-of-the-box"
> > and does not require any special booting or BIOS setup.
> > An exceptionally well-integrated package, Steven!
> > As an experiment, BL-3.40 was also tested on an HP Athlon.
> > Booting was a problem, because the 2.2.x kernels see the
> > first (only) HDD as /dev/hde. so the "rc" script had to
> > be changed and an "hde1" device node added. After that,
> > it boots, but so far, Xvesa just produces a black screen.
>
> I also needed hde1 for a PCMCIA CF adaptor in a desktop computer with
> added PCMCIA controller, where hda and hdb are hard disks, hdc CD-ROM
> drive, hdd IDE zip drive. Please add it to the next version.
>
> What do the 2.2 kernels see as hda in your Athlon?
>
> > The video is VIA.
> > Ken Martwick
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