From: Jay Maynard <jmaynard@conmicro.cx>
To: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org, debian-alpha@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: howto boot alpha via SRM without supported SCSI controller
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 08:10:04 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041022131004.GA31857@thebrain.conmicro.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yw1xr7nq3ogx.fsf@mru.ath.cx>
On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 02:51:42PM +0200, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> writes:
> > Thanks for the suggestion. I decided to take this route, put a small IDE
> > disk into the machine, and only get aboot, kernel and root-fs from
> > there. Anyting else will be done from SCSI disks.
> There is no problem having the root fs on the SCSI disks. Just pass
> root=/dev/sdXX to the kernel.
If you do this, I'd suggest putting swap space on the unused portion of the
IDE. That way, you won't have I/O contention for swapping.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-22 13:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-15 11:06 howto boot alpha via SRM without supported SCSI controller Norbert Preining
2004-10-15 11:37 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-10-22 8:40 ` Joakim Roubert
2004-10-22 9:58 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-10-23 12:58 ` John Goerzen
2004-10-22 12:24 ` Norbert Preining
2004-10-22 12:51 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-10-22 13:10 ` Jay Maynard [this message]
2004-10-22 13:29 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-10-22 13:31 ` Norbert Preining
2004-10-22 14:21 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-10-22 14:39 ` Norbert Preining
2004-10-22 13:26 ` Norbert Preining
2004-10-22 14:20 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-10-22 14:43 ` Norbert Preining
2004-10-22 15:15 ` Måns Rullgård
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