Adam Di Carlo scripsit: [...] |I dunno. Floppy disk loads the root filesystem as a ramdisk. That's |the main difference..
Could it possibly remotely be linked to the ramdisk and the VGA BIOS cached in RAM? I cannot disable it on these machines but that is the only thing which is left as "weird"! |I CC'd debian-laptop as well. It seems to me that there's a good |chance that laptop users could benfit from a special laptop "flavor" |kernel. Ideally, it could boot with PCMCIA support, but I don't |really see that as a reality until 2.4.x, when PCMCIA is shipping with |the kernel. Maybe it's possible if you guys get tricky. We could |certainly try to have a special root disk with cardmanager support. Just to make things clear for the debian-laptop people: these i486 boxes are Dell boxes not laptops. I do have an i486 laptop but that one boots happily (lucky me!) :-) Happy to test anything you want to get these i486s running as it is rather painful to have to open up a Pentium to install and then stick the disks back... Arrigo -- Arrigo Triulzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Netherhall House, London, UK
