Re: strange

From: Kris (krisp1_at_mlode.com)
Date: 08/21/04

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Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 16:48:17 -0700

    Actually no I used the kernel tar bal from source forge debian does not seem
    to have a 2.4.2 package that I could find. Kris

    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "Shaul Karl" <shaulk@013.net.il>
    To: "Kris" <krisp1@mlode.com>
    Cc: "Debian List" <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
    Sent: Friday, August 20, 2004 3:34 PM
    Subject: Re: strange

    > On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 11:05:47AM -0700, Kris wrote:
    > > I have been very successfully running debian from a cd for quite some
    time.
    > > I use kernel 2.4.18-586tsc. For some strange reason when I upgrade to
    > > kernel 2.4.20 I can no longer boot from cd. It appears the secondary
    loader
    > > is not being emulated back to the cd but rather looks for a floppy disk
    to
    > > continue the boot. I use Lilo and the cd gets to LI...... and if I
    place
    > > the floppy in the floppy drive that I used to create my bootable cd the
    > > system will continue to boot but I want it to boot entirely from the cd
    and
    > > have nothing to do with the floppy. Again this process works fine with
    the
    > > 2.4.18 kernel so it is not in the process as I have recompiled my kernel
    > > many times and the 2.4.18 always boots. Any help would be great.
    Thanks
    > > Kris
    >
    >
    > Are you using Debian's kernel-package in order to compile and install
    > the kernel?
    > --
    > "If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then
    > you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I
    > have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two
    > ideas." -- George Bernard Shaw (sent by shaulk @ 013 . net . il) 

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