[3265] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: the installer and 3c905 cards
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Sat Jan 6 10:05:24 2001
To: seph <seph@MIT.EDU>
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Date: 06 Jan 2001 10:05:21 -0500
In-Reply-To: seph's message of "Fri, 05 Jan 2001 21:46:33 -0500"
Message-ID: <sjm1yugraa6.fsf@rcn.ihtfp.org>
No, my instructions were "basically you run mkinitrd then mkboot".
Then later I mentioned to look at my Makefile.
Is there any particular reason you left the 3c501, 3c503, 3c505, and
3c507 modules out of your build?
-derek
seph <seph@MIT.EDU> writes:
> so today on -c sipb, alex was trying to help a user who had a
> 3c905[bc] card. unfortunalty the installer does not have the 3c90x.o
> module, and only has 3c59x.o. consensus was that that would never
> work. So, I poked around, and added 3c90x.o to the
> network/modules/modules.cgz file. Saddly I was then unable to make a
> boot disk.
>
> my instructions from warlord were to "mkinitrd and then mkboot" I
> notice that mkboot runs mkinitrd, so I opted not to worry about that
> step. It does produce an image, but I can't mount or boot it.
>
> So, if someone wants to try to create this boot disk, all my changes
> are in /mit/linux/devel/redhat/6.2/trees-3c905. In theory ./mkboot
> network should have created a working bootnet.img in images. saddly I
> don't have time to debug it this evening. The make file might also be
> helpful.
>
> anyhow, have fun. sorry for the scatterbrained'ness of this email.
>
> seph
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Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
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