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Re: more 3c90x boot disk take 2

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Sat Jan 6 10:35:49 2001

To: Camilla R Fox <cfox@MIT.EDU>
Cc: seph@MIT.EDU, linux-dev@MIT.EDU
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Date: 06 Jan 2001 10:35:46 -0500
In-Reply-To: Camilla R Fox's message of "Sat, 06 Jan 2001 05:54:06 -0500"
Message-ID: <sjmwvc8pub1.fsf@rcn.ihtfp.org>

Hrm, I wonder why it's even asking you to choose?  Normally it just
detects the card and loads it.  Also, I've never seen this error
before, so I don't know what it means offhand.  Sigh.

For the record, this is what I meant last night when I said that
updating kernel modules could be tricky ;)

-derek

Camilla R Fox <cfox@MIT.EDU> writes:

> I tried seph's boot floppy image on snork.  If I select "3Com
> 3c590/3c595 Vortex", it punts me back to the "what boot media" screen,
> with "error 2 reading header: Success" at the bottom of it.
> 
> VC3 has the insmod line for that module, with the usual "path is null",
> and no error.
> 
> -Camilla

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