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. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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