[ILUG] DHCP on home LAN?

[Timothy Murphy]

On Tuesday 09 November 2004 14:36, Liam Bedford wrote:

> > Actually, I have a standard Sony CD drive.
> > But the last Redhat/Fedora kernel to recognise it was RH-8.0.
>
> does it fail if you boot with ide2=0x180,0x386 ?

Yes, here are some notes I made a couple of months ago:

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Trying to install FC3-test2 -  without much success so far.
I've downloaded and burned the 4 CDs.
If I just try to install by responding Enter to the boot prompt
I get as far as trying to read the local CD drive,
which is "not found".
If I respond "linux ide2=0x180,0x386 pci=off" I get a kernel panic.
If I respond "linux ide2=0x180,0x386 noacpi" I get a little further -
the CD drive is found, and appears in the boot messages as hde,
but then I get garbage on the screen,
and "install exited abnormally - received signal 11".
Now I'm trying "linux ide2=0x180,0x386 noacpi noprobe";
this seems to hang after the screen "Loading the ohci1394 driver".
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(I should have said that "linux ide2=0x180,0x386" 
also gave a kernel panic;
but someone on a Sony-C1 mailing list had suggested
adding "pci=off" and someone else suggested "noacpi".)


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