On Thu, 3 Jun 1999 yodaiken@chelm.cs.nmt.edu wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 02, 1999 at 03:42:01PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > If you think I'm going to use a floppy to boot up an operating system
> > with, you're wrong. It makes perfect sense to just boot up the kernel, and
> > start installation from the CD.
> >
> > Except it doesn't work unless you can read the CD. Which you can't with
> > the current PCMCIA approach.
>
> How do you boot up the kernel from CD if you can't read the cd?
>
The situation isthat the bios can see the CD, boots from it, but then the
kernel can't see the CD to continue the install.
David Lang
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