Lilo-mtd passes garbage as kernel command line

Lilo-mtd passes garbage as kernel command line

[Raphael Hertzog]

Hello,

I'm using lilo-mtd (lilo 21 with the patch available on the website) to
boot on a DOC. It works but I have a little problem. It looks like lilo
is passing garbage to the kernel as kernel command line.

During the boot there's a message saying: 
Kernel command line: <insert esoteric garbage here>

Also I noticed that any argument given in the append configuration item
in lilo.conf is not used... which is understandable if the kernel really
see the garbage as its command line.

Does anyone else experience the same problem ? How can I help you track
this bug down ?

I use a stock 2.4.19 kernel.

I tried to understand where the kernel looks for its command line
arguments and where lilo puts them but it's a bit complicated for me.

Cheers,
-- 
Raphaël Hertzog - EIPM SA

Re: Lilo-mtd passes garbage as kernel command line

[Ilguiz Latypov]

I once enabled the serial port control in lilo but left a serial mouse
attached.  It seems lilo interacts with video/keyboard and serial port at
the same time, duplicating output into both.

On 23 Jan 2003, Raphael Hertzog wrote:

> I'm using lilo-mtd (lilo 21 with the patch available on the website) to
> boot on a DOC. It works but I have a little problem. It looks like lilo
> is passing garbage to the kernel as kernel command line.

Re: Lilo-mtd passes garbage as kernel command line

[Raphael Hertzog]

Am Don, 2003-01-23 um 15.31 schrieb Ilguiz Latypov:
> I once enabled the serial port control in lilo but left a serial mouse
> attached.  It seems lilo interacts with video/keyboard and serial port at
> the same time, duplicating output into both.

I think it's totally unrelated to my problem. The lilo and the DOC are
on an embedded PC without VGA output but with serial ports and I do see
the garbage with the boot messages that are sent via the serial line...

Also I try to pass the parameter "console=null" to prevent the kernel
from sending those messages but it doesn't work as it used to when I was
uing "doc-lilo" from m-sys (associated to their binary-only driver :-().

BTW, along with the patch for lilo there's a "boot.b-mtd", where are the
sources for this file ?

Cheers,
-- 
Raphaël Hertzog - EIPM SA

Re: Lilo-mtd passes garbage as kernel command line

[Raphael Hertzog]

Am Don, 2003-01-23 um 15.42 schrieb Raphael Hertzog:
> BTW, along with the patch for lilo there's a "boot.b-mtd", where are the
> sources for this file ?

Does anybody know that ?

Who wrote the lilo patch ?

I'd really like to be able to use lilo since it's much more convenient
than grub to install in particular when you must prepare dozen of disk
on chips ... so I'm willing to try to dig in the code to find out myself
what's wrong if possible but for that I need at least the complete
sources.

Cheers,
-- 
Raphaël Hertzog - EIPM SA