[Fwd: Re: [parisc-linux] booting on 712/60]

[James Waterhouse <james.waterhouse@videotron.ca>]

Hello,
Is the ramdisk at 
ftp://puffin.external.hp.com/pub/parisc/binaries/ramdisks/ramdisk.bin-20000803
useable? I'm just wondering cause in the recipe we are told to use the
older ramdisks. Also this ramdisk doe not say wether it is for serial or
graphics console. But since I read Grants reply it would seem that it
does not matter. Is this true? Is this a useable ramdisk? What can
anyone tell me about it?

thanks,
James


Grant Grundler wrote:
> 
> James Waterhouse wrote:
> > Hello,
> >       I just compiled a ramdisk using mondays cvs src for everything. I'm
> > using the graphics console ramdisk file off the puffin.external.hp.com
> > (ramdisk20000530-sticon.tgz) to make the ramdisk. Now when I got to boot
> > it boots up until the point where the kernel says...
> 
> iirc, ramdisk20000530-sticon.tgz uses a "kluge" /dev/tty major/minor number.
> I was reading old mail on this and the kluge to use a different
> major/minor confused me. I was told this was no longer needed.
> So you can use a newer/regular ramdisk.
> 
> Mathew Wilcox posted the "how-to" on ramdisk:
>     http://puffin.external.hp.com/mailing-lists/parisc-linux/2000/01-Jan/0078.html
> 
> grant
> 
> Grant Grundler
> Unix Systems Enablement Lab
> +1.408.447.7253

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