From: John P. Looney (jplooney-ilug at domain online.ie)
Date: Wed 03 May 2000 - 14:17:33 IST
On Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 11:39:51AM +0100, Kenn Humborg mentioned:
> Also, did I hear something about Linux having trouble
> booting from UDMA66 drives a while back? Will I need to
> have an older drive in there for boot/root?
It's just effort. Install CDs from 6.1 and before couldn't boot most
UDMA66 chipsets, so it was effort to get anywhere. And a small messup with
your initrd or your lilo.conf meant ages playing about swapping drives &
stuff. I'd stick /boot on a standard controller, if possible.
Kate
-- "The fool must be beaten with a stick, for an intelligent person the merest hint is sufficient" -- Zen Master Greg
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