From: George Caswell (tetsujin_at_maine.rr.com)
Date: Wed May 17 2000 - 23:33:27 EDT
On Mon, 15 May 2000, Shawn T. Rutledge wrote:
> Anyway my ongoing problem with my 730T is the problems with the PCMCIA
> hard drive... it hangs when the kernel first tries to find out about
> its geometry on bootup, and also anytime I try to use fdisk. It eventually
> times out and continues, but with errors.
>
I assume the fdisk thing is when booting from floppy? (I gotta get me one
o them.)
> Does anybody actually have Linux booting from a PCMCIA hard disk?
OK, this isn't exactly success - but I've got it going as far as booting
the kernel. It can't access the hard drive (fails to read the partition info,
gets interrupt timeouts, etc.) but as far as "have Linux booting", that's
done. It kernel panics since it can't mount the drive but in theory I could
mount something else - NFS probably, since I don't have anything else
mountable. This is with kernel 2.3.99-pre8 with PCMCIA support compiled in.
VGA16 framebuffer as well- lovely penguin boot logo. :)
I'll probably start poking around in the kernel sources to see if I can
make it ignore what BIOS says about the drives and just treat the drive as a
PCMCIA unit. Maybe I could even do that with a kernel command switch -
hdparm=0 or something. I'll let you know if I make any astounding
breakthroughs. I'll also be very happy. Oh yes. Very, very happy. I'll be
one step closer to my ultimate goal, of loading the Palm OS emulator onto the
unit at triple scale and pitching it at circuses around the nation as the
WorkPad that time forgot.
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