Re: BIOS and basic hardware drivers
- From: Tauno Voipio <tauno.voipio@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:56:06 GMT
Haines Brown wrote:
I'm sorry not to have provided more specific information, for I was
trying to ask a rather generic question. In any case, this is a SCSI
system dating to about 2002 that now has debian sarge (2004112) on
it. The kernel is 2.4.27-3-686.
Aaa - ha!
You should have told it straight away ...
The Debian installer uses a secondary boot
(which I don't remember the name for) which
does not access the simulated floppy, but
accesses the boot media directly with its
own drivers. The bad side is that it has a
driver for an IDE CD only.
I had the same problem with a SCSI system.
The CD booted fine, as it was then using
the code on the SCSI controller BIOS chip,
creating the simulated floppy, but the
secondary boot got stuck due to the missing
SCSI controller and CD drivers.
--
Tauno Voipio, OH2UG
tauno voipio (at) iki fi
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