Installing Severn on a Sony 505VE laptop - broken?
Alan
alan at clueserver.org
Sat Sep 6 21:34:29 UTC 2003
I am trying to get Severn installed on a Sony 505ve laptop. I have
installed a number of other versions on it with no problem.
When i install, it boots of the PCMCIA cd-rom. When i select "Local
CD-ROM" as the install media, it claims that it cannot find a driver for
that device.
The pcmcia cd-rom normally uses the ide-floppy driver. It is loaded on
boot.
I have tried using the pcmdiadd.img to load the ide-cd driver. It does
not want to see it unless I use "linux dd" on boot. (It does not show
up on the list of additional drivers if I try to load the driver disk
later.)
"linux ide1=0x180" does not work either. (Which used to be the fix for
this problem on older installs.)
It just refuses to see the cd-rom drive.
Ideas? I would do an NFS install, but the laptop has only one pcmcia
slot and that is eaten by the cd-rom drive.
Since this has worked with other versions, I am assuming that it is a
bug. Just not certain what is going on. I may have to build a custom
version and try that...
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Alan <alan at clueserver.org>
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