Laptops :: Unable to boot from pcmcia card

Using a Toshiba 4900CT wit 24 MB. Ram. Boot floppy and pcmcia disk. All goes well untill I get message "Unable to find image". DSL appears to scan all devices but does not find my pcmcia cd rom. The CD ROM is a Panasonic KXL-D740. The drive uses a scsi driver under Windows and functions properly when I use Win 95. I burned the image at 4X since it is a 4X drive.

All suggestions appreciated.

Thanks

What scsi controller do you have? (is it detected on start?)

Maybe you can use the fromhd=/dev/sdXx bootcode...

The card shows as a scsi device in the Windows device manager. I'm not sure which if any scsi controller exists. How do I verify that the controller was found on boot up? DSL scans the devices it found but goes so fast I can't follow it. I'm dumped to a "dumb" shell with limited commands. I am unable to use LS to list the /dev directory. What is the usual /dev name of a scsi pcmcia drive? Will try your boot up suggestion.

Some more info.

I copied the image to the HDD and was able to boot DSL. This allowed me to see the messages:

modprobe parport_cs
get device info socket 1 failed ... no such device

The interface card is in slot 1.

The modem in slot 0 was correctly identified.

Is it possible that DSL thinks the interface card is a parallel port?

I also cannot get to the cd from DSL. The HDA1 partition is mounted on the /mnt/cdrom directory oddly enough.

The CD should be scd something but what.

If you are getting the initial boot screen via your pcmcia cdrom drive, but failure finding the image then try this

At the initial boot prompt:

boot: dsl ide2=0x180 nopcmcia

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