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  1. #1
    TheIowan
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    Booting with a PCMCIA CDROM

    I have a PCMCIA CD/RW drive on one of these lightweight laptops. There is no floppy drive.

    It boots the kernel just fine, but it cannot mount the CDROM. I think I need the ide_cs kernel module, but it does not seem to exist anywhere I can get at it. And since there is no floppy drive, I cannot load it that way.

    Does anyone have any suggestions on what I can do to boot where it can mount the PCMCIA CD/RW drive?

    Thanks!

  2. #2
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    Re: Booting with a PCMCIA CDROM

    You might try using ide2=0x180,0x386 as the first boot parameter. This worked for my Sony VAIO laptop.

    I found this here: http://www.mobilix.org/Mobile-Guide....ia-device.html

  3. #3
    TheIowan
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    Re: Booting with a PCMCIA CDROM

    Thanks so much for the suggestion. It still doesn't work, though, unfortunately.

    Oddly enough, Mandrake 9 will find the CDROM after loading the ide-cs module (and supporting modules). I rebuilt the initrd filesystem and added those modules (pcmcia_core, yenta_socket, ds, ide-cs), but it still doesn't work. I suppose I could spend a lot of time figuring out how Mandrake is booting, and then re-build the Knoppix kernel and boot method, but it's a bit beyond me and I am out of time and am giving up on this for now.

  4. #4
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    Hi,

    I had the same problem booting from a PCMCIA cdrom.
    So I modified the Knoppix bootdisk.
    It works for me so it might also work for you.
    Give it a try.
    The floppy images can be downloaded from:

    http://www.luell.com/download/knoppi...ootdisk.img.gz
    http://www.luell.com/download/knoppi...modules.img.gz

    Hope that helps.

    Bye
    Jochen

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