Linux-kernel mailing list archive 1999-32,: Re: > 1 meg bzImage

# Re: > 1 meg bzImage

Robert de Bath (rd103980@home-box.demon.co.uk)
Tue, 10 Aug 1999 18:51:10 +0100 (BST)

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On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> Robert de Bath wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 9 Aug 1999, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> >
> > > Robert de Bath wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Please could one (or four) of the floppy minors be mapped onto the
> > > > first IDE LS-120 drive or sda1-4 of a Zip drive for multi-system boot
> > > > 'super-'floppies because otherwise it's _impossible_ to predict which
> > > > device the floppy drive will be so we can't mount root!
> > > >
> > >
> > > initrd.
> > Yes, but how do you tell it's a floppy?
> > It ain't anywhere in /proc that I can see.
> >
>
> Sure it is:
>
> /proc/ide/ide*/hd*/media
Ah, I see a bug! I'd guess that something has a problem getiing it's mind
around the fact that an IDE interface can appear in mid flight :-)

    --
    Rob.                          (Robert de Bath <http://poboxes.com/rdebath>)
                        <rdebath @ poboxes.com> <http://www.cix.co.uk/~mayday>

    Script started on Tue Aug 10 18:39:54 1999
    p2(root@debian)/root# mdir d:
     Volume in drive D has no label
     Volume Serial Number is 0000-0001
     Directory for D:/

    unixto~1     <DIR>     12-15-1998  18:34  Unix tools
    scotoo~1     <DIR>     12-15-1998  18:35  SCO tools
    dostoo~1     <DIR>     12-15-1998  18:35  DOS tools
    dist         <DIR>     12-30-1998  18:11  Dist
    telix        <DIR>     01-17-1999  17:59
    w95too~1     <DIR>     12-15-1998  18:36  W95 tools
    stuff        <DIR>     12-30-1998  18:17  Stuff
    msc          <DIR>     01-17-1999  18:03
    floppies     <DIR>     04-11-1999  13:34
            9 file(s)                 0 bytes
                             28 579 840 bytes free

    p2(root@debian)/root# hdparm -i /dev/hdc

    /dev/hdc:
     HDIO_GET_MULTCOUNT failed: Input/output error

     Model=LS-120 SLIM 02 UHD Floppy, FwRev=0011K14G, SerialNo=84A00218
     Config={ Removeable nonMagnetic }
     RawCHS=0/0/0, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=0
     BuffType=0(?), BuffSize=0kB, MaxMultSect=0
     DblWordIO=no, maxPIO=2(fast), DMA=no
     CurCHS=0/0/0, CurSects=0, LBA=yes, LBAsects=0
     IORDY=yes, tPIO={min:240,w/IORDY:240}, PIO modes:

    p2(root@debian)/root# grep . /proc/ide/ide*/hd*/media
    disk
    p2(root@debian)/root# ls -l  /proc/ide/ide*/hd*/media
    -r--r--r--   1 root     root            0 Aug 10 18:41 /proc/ide/ide0/hda/media
    p2(root@debian)/root# cat /proc/devices
    Character devices:
      1 mem
      2 pty
      3 ttyp
      4 ttyS
      5 cua
      7 vcs
     10 misc
     29 fb
    254 pcmcia

    Block devices:
      1 ramdisk
      3 ide0
      9 md
     22 ide1
    p2(root@debian)/root# cat /proc/version
    Linux version 2.2.9 (root@debian) (gcc version 2.7.2.3) #1 Sat May 29 08:59:03 B
    ST 1999
    p2(root@debian)/root# lsmod
    Module                  Size  Used by
    serial_cs               3848   0  (unused)
    serial                 34968   0  [serial_cs]
    3c589_cs                6332   1
    ide-floppy              8060   0  (autoclean)
    ide_cs                  3132   1
    ds                      6144   2  [serial_cs 3c589_cs ide_cs]
    i82365                 20756   2
    pcmcia_core            35096   0  [serial_cs 3c589_cs ide_cs ds i82365]
    nls_iso8859-1           2024   1  (autoclean)
    nls_cp437               3548   1  (autoclean)
    vfat                   11100   1  (autoclean)
    fat                    23912   1  (autoclean) [vfat]
    p2(root@debian)/root# exit

    Script done on Tue Aug 10 18:45:49 1999

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