lug-bg: Toshiba Portege 7020 CT; PCMCIA CD-ROM non-bootable

[danchev@xxxxxxxxx (George Danchev)]

Hi,
laptop Toshiba Portege 7020 CT. CD-ROM e vynshen i zaka4en na PCMCIA slot. 

1. Problem e 4e BIOS-a ne poddyrzha boot ot PCMCIA CD-ROM, ima vyzmozhnost za 
boot ot CD-ROM no tova e tozi kojto eventualno ste se polzva ot docking 
station-a (ima si slot za dock) no tova ne vyrzhi rabota ... Sled izvesten 
googling popadnahme na http://btmgr.sf.net
Tozi boot manager ne se opitva da replace kernel loaders kato lilo ili grub, a 
prosto kato se instalira na disketa (ot pod Linux ili DOS) i boot-va ot neq 
(slava bogu floppy-to boot-va, t.e. ima go v BIOS-a kato sequence;-) sled 
koeto bi trqbvalo da pokazhe vsi4ki bootable devices vkl. i PCMCIA CD-ROM-a 
(taka pishe i v docs). Tova trebe da e zhestoko software, DA oba4e v menuto 
mu ima vsiko bez PCMCIA CD-ROM-a (probahme precompiled linux i dos binaries i 
build ot source pod linux, no luck) i taka i neuspqhme da izluzheme laptop-a 
da boot-va ot tozi PCMCIA CD-ROM ... Ne namerihme i analogi4no software za 
celta,  nqkakvi drugi idei? A flush-vaneto na BIOS-a e poslednata stypka, 
koqto bi se predpriela, taka 4e tq otpada za sega ;-)

2. Tynkiq MDK GNU/Linux install beshe napraven na druga machina i sled tova 
HDD-to premesteno na tazi Toshiba, boot linux ot tova hdd i malko izra4ka 
dokato se smenqt nastrojkite, osobeno na X-sa ;-). Oba4e pak se okaza 4e 
nesto ne otkriva tozi PCMCIA CD-ROM, model SCD-540 Generic (dmesg ne dava 
nikyf CD-ROM ili PCMCIA device; pcmcia-cs installed). V 
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt nisto interesno ne namerih za podobno 
ustrojstvo, slu4ajno nqkoj da mozhe da podskazhe boot parameters i kernel 
support (built-in ili module za celta).

P.S. sorry 4e ne davam nikyf output, no edno nebrezhno pobytvane s idei kak da 
boot ot tozi PCMCIA CD-ROM i posle kak da setup drivers mislq 4e ste mi e 
dostaty4no ... Ideqta e da ima installed na HDD-to MDK, eventualno v kraen 
slu4aj po-natatyk i XP, i zadylzhitelno boot Knoppix CD ot CD-ROM on user 
request ... Blah ... 

10x. 

-- 
Greets, fr33zb1 
[catching up with Sid (the boy next door who destroyed toys :-)]
[reg your bg translation or grab one from http://www.bgit.net/?id=37892]

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