From: George Caswell (tetsujin_at_maine.rr.com)
Date: Mon May 15 2000 - 20:08:05 EDT
On Mon, 15 May 2000, Shawn T. Rutledge wrote:
> Anyway my ongoing problem with my 730T is the problems with the PCMCIA
> hard drive... it hangs when the kernel first tries to find out about
> its geometry on bootup, and also anytime I try to use fdisk. It eventually
> times out and continues, but with errors.
>
> Does anybody actually have Linux booting from a PCMCIA hard disk?
I haven't gotten quite that far myself. Looking through some list archives
I did see someone saying they'd done it, but there's no way I could confirm
that.
Perhaps the IBM BIOS doesn't report the geometry in a very linux-friendly
way - if you're booting from LILO or another bootloader that lets you specify
kernel parameters, you can set the geometry yourself (the hdparm switch, I
think).
What kernel are you trying to boot?
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