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Message from Steven
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Sindi wrote:
>
> The floppy version does not need to access your scsi drive.

So, it's a scsi drive?  Does that make his primary 
hardrive /dev/sda and his partitions /dev/sda1 
/dev/sda2  ...etc... ?

If /baslin is on the DOS C: drive, is that /dev/sda1 ?

> Install to hard drive 

Unfortunately, he can't install to /dev/sda if the
kernel can't see /dev/sda.  We first need to get 
scsi capability into the kernel.  We might be able 
to do that with an insmod.  Unfortunately, I have 
no scsi hardware, so I can't test it myself.  

Sindi, can you tell us which modules you insmod
to get scsi capability into a running kernel?
Or is it not possible to do that?

> boot with alternative kernel bzimage.big 
> (2.2.26) from the BL site, which has built-in 
> support for scsi hard drives. 

Yes, the BL3 big kernel should work and it will
be a simple replacement once BL3 is installed 
to HD.  However, getting the big kernel into
the floppy version (or the DOS version) is not
so simple.

> To boot with this kernel using the DOS loop setup, 
> you would need to modify a file to point at /dev/sda1 
> instead of /dev/hda1 

The file is linuxrc and it resides inside initfs.gz

> It is complicated.

Yes it is.  First you gunzip initfs.gz.  Then you
mount it (using -o loop parameter).  Then edit,
exit and gzip.

Perhaps we should do a modified initfs.gz that 
looks for /baslin on /dev/sda1 ?  But first we 
need to be absolutely sure that the DOS C: drive 
will be /dev/sda1

Cheers,
Steven