On Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 05:32:39PM -0500, hg/jb wrote:
> "Brandon D. Valentine" wrote:
> > 
> > On Sun, 12 Nov 2000, R. C. Dowdeswell wrote:

...

> > This is the only alpha I have.  I can't build a kernel until I can boot
> > it.  I've tried booting the install disks, exiting the installer, and
> > mounting wd0, but I still can't build the kernel sources using the
> > limited single user environment the install disks present me with.
> > There used to be a GENERIC.fs floppy built with the release that could
> > be used for this purpose, however it's not available any longer,
> > presumably due to overflowing the size limitations of a floppy.  It
> > seems to me one shouldn't need a kernel on the actual floppy if the
> > second stage bootloader was smart enough to recognize wd0 as a boot
> > device.
> > 
> > --
> > Brandon D. Valentine <bandix@looksharp.net>
> > "Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a
> > good example."  --  Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson
> 
> Brandon,
> I don't mean to sound dense, but under 1.4.2, I was able to use an IDE 
> drive in my PC164, so I "assumed" the ide capability was in the
> multia too.  That may be a bad assumption on my part.

Multia SRM unfortunately does not know to boot IDE drives :-(

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