From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 15 May 2002 09:43:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 15 May 2002 09:43:07 -0400 Received: from a217-118-40-108.bluecom.no ([217.118.40.108]:15125 "EHLO mail.circlestorm.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 15 May 2002 09:43:06 -0400 Message-ID: <00bd01c1fc16$6fcfbd50$0d01a8c0@studio2pw0bzm4> From: "Dead2" To: "Tigran Aivazian" Cc: In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: Initrd or Cdrom as root Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 15:43:03 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Interesting, so you are saying that the modern BIOSes are already capable > of booting no-emulation CDs? Last time I tried it (perhaps a year ago) > some of my Dell machines couldn't do it so I gave up and decided to live > with the 2.88M limit. > But if things changed and I should revisit the idea (i.e. if it is now > possible to have boot images larger than 2.88M in a portable manner) then > I would like to know. Indeed it seems like it works on most computers here atleast, and I would like to explore this way of doing it before boiling out of it just to find new problems arising with other ways. So, I now have a new problem I hope someone can help me out with. It now mounts the cdrom as root like it should, but then gives me the error: "Warning: unable to open an initial console." I have checked everything I can think of, but if someone could point me to exactly generates this error, I would be forever grateful. -=Dead2=-