On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 17:17, Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:05:15 +0100
> Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to boot from an XUbuntu 9.10 CD on an old Sony VAIO Z600.
>> The special thing about this laptop is that the CD-ROM drive is actually a
>> drive connected to a PCMCIA card.
>
> Nothing special about that.
>
>> With the old ide subsystem, you had to pass `ide2=0x180,0x386' on the
>> kernel command line to make install CDs find the CD-ROM drive. Recent
>> distros use the new ata subsystem, hence this doesn't work anymore.
>>
>> Does there exist an equivalent for the new ata subsystem?
>
> With both the recent old and the current libata your pcmcia or cardbus
> subsystem as appropriate should discover the device. ide=a,b,c won't
> actually work because the kernel pcmica subsystem will re-init the port
> from the BIOS whacky setup to normal PCMCIA/Cardbus.
>
> Not tried this on the Z600 but it is true for several others.
>
> If it doesn't work on the Z600 get more some dmi strings, lspci dumps and
> verify what the pcmcia layer does and we can make it automatic as it
> should be.
I used an older Ubuntu CD that still took ide2= to bootstrap something on
the harddrive, and managed to install Xubuntu 9.10 from that. After the
install the PCMCIA CD-ROM drive is detected fine, so it's not actually a generic
kernel problem, but an issue with the Ubuntu Live CD.
Sorry for the noise...
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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