General
You can install LILO or GRUB on your hard drive if desired for recovery on
another i386 system (disk will be bootable), the RaQ will just ignore the MBR.
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Fedore Extract (may work for debian ttyS0)
http://www.unstable.org.uk/cobalt/
ALI IDE Controller (second disk is hdc)
ide0: master/slave (hda/hdb)
ide1: master/slave (hdc/hdd)
I had problems with the /dev/console entry being made by udev, and udev is not
started until after the console needs to work, so the following is a workaround:
mkdir /tmp/dev
mount --move /dev /tmp/dev
/sbin/MAKEDEV null console zero
mount --move /tmp/dev /dev
Compile your own kernel:
cd /usr/src
tar zxvf /tmp/linux-2.6.16.tar.gz
patch -p1 < /tmp/linux-cobalt-2.6.16.2006032101.illogical.patch
cp /tmp/gen_iii-minimal.config linux-2.6.16/.config
cd ./linux-2.6.16
make menuconfig
#configure any extra items into the kernel (raid support?)
make vmlinux modules modules_install
strip vmlinux
cp vmlinux /boot
bzip2 /boot/vmlinux
ROM Partition Specifications:
boot
set_boot_dev hda1 # /boot
set_root_dev hda3 # /
set_boot_type disk
main
quit