On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 12:20:20PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a pcmcia scsi adapter which works fine with an external > scsi drive. I use the external drive just for storage and > experimentation. I can't crack the code on booting from a pcmcia > device :-(
That's because the BIOS doesn't allow you to boot from it. If you can boot from a bootable disk, you should be able to hack up an initrd that initialises the PCMCIA stuff just enough to be able to put the root fs on the external drive. Erik -- J.A.K. (Erik) Mouw, Information and Communication Theory Group, Faculty of Information Technology and Systems, Delft University of Technology, PO BOX 5031, 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands Phone: +31-15-2783635 Fax: +31-15-2781843 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www-ict.its.tudelft.nl/~erik/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
