Re: [cobalt-users] Raq4 - Kernel 2.4 Upgrade Woes [UPDATE]

["Josh Trutwin" <josh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> OK, it looks like the ROM is good, it just can't boot from the drive...
> That is a tricky situation, I think the improtant thing, is to check the
> boot params in the ROM, but I think Duncan already talked to you about
> that (set boot params) to boot from hda1.

Yeah, he told me about that, it was using a RAID parameter before, but I
changed all that, no luck.  I tried using an 18GB drive instead of the 40
GB drive reduced to 32 GB by the jumper, same results as well.  When I
updated the BIOS, it still booted the old HD containing the original
Cobalt install.  Would've been smarter to keep those hard drives intact
and try the install first with a fresh drive.  I just didn't think this
would be such a science project.  The instructions were pretty cut and dry
and made it sound like a vanilla install of Debian with a custom kernel
vmlinux image gzipped and dropped in the /boot directory would be all it
took.  I'm still hoping the NFS is a possibility, but my last post
regarding that is still waiting for a reply.

> The other thing is AFAIK the RaQ won't use lilo or grub.
> One day soon I hope to get the time to play with debian annd slackware
> on the RaQs.

I installed Lilo into the MBR so I could boot up the Debian kernel
easilly, the instructions said that Cobalt ignores the MBR so this would
only serve as a convenience for booting while the disk was in the PC.  I
guess I could try another install and not add Lilo, just use boot
floppies, do you think that would make a difference?

Josh