Arrigo Triulzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What I find puzzling is that, unless I've missed the plot of course, > we never install a particular kernel-image on the HD which to me means > that we are effectively booting from HD using the same kernel as the > one on the bootdisks. So why should it turn off the VGA card only on > floppy boot?
I dunno. Floppy disk loads the root filesystem as a ramdisk. That's the main difference.. 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. If you guys on debian-laptop agree, perhaps you could upload a special 2.2.13-laptop kernel to unstable, and work with debian-boot to work out issues? -- .....Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
