Re: LinuxAPUS on a Power Flyer?

[Alan B. <al...@ms...>]

Hi,


> Let me start off by first apologising for the question I
> am about to ask. I'm sure this has been asked many times
> before.

it has...but the FAQ is like a famous parrot. I'm looking
into replacement as now an important urgency
 
> When I last tried LinusAPUS (during the AmigaActive
> articles), it did'nt look like it was possible to boot
> from an HD on an A1200 Power Flyer interface. I don't
> have any other HD's on the internal IDE or on my SCSI.
> So, has anything now changed to allow me to boot up
> LinuxAPUS? If so, can you provide details please.

first the 'bad news', no, PowerFlyer isnt supported by the kernel.

but now the 'good news'. Through a fortunate bit of hardware
design, if you DONT INITIALISE the powerflyer the first channel
(IDE0) appears just like the plain Gayle controller and we've
got reports that it works okay by several users. 

ie boot from cold with no startup and you should be able to run a
bootstrap command to boot into Linux.  Only be able to access the
first two units though.


alan