On Mon, 26 Aug 2002, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > What I'm suspecting, though, is that the Red Hat 7.3 installation bootdisk > uses a kernel which doesn't have built-in serial port support. Or... floppy support which is required to load a ramdisk from a floppy. Since the standard RH bootdisk is using an initrd to load its initial root filesystem, it actually doesn't need to have built-in floppy support in the kernel. However it is required if a second floppy is used. Nicolas