LILO and booting from DiskOnChip

LILO and booting from DiskOnChip

[Mr. Oogie Boogie]

Hello All,

Sorry to butt in but I hope this is an appropriate group for my
problem. I have a Mighty Mite carrier board with a DiskOnChip 2000. I
am using the Linux v2.2 drivers from M-Systems with kernel v2.2.13.

Simply, when boot/root is set to the DoC, kernel messages during
bootup *do not* appear over the serial line. Strangely, when a boot
floppy (identical kernel) is used with the DoC as root the kernel
messages *do* appear over the serial line. 
 
Has anyone encountered this problem before?

Do you think this is an error with the DoC or kernel?

Any helpful suggestions on how I can fix this?

Thanks for your time,

Ralph A. Preston
The MITRE Corporation
202 Burlington Road, MS E015
Bedford, MA 01730-1420
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Re: LILO and booting from DiskOnChip

[Andreas Kotes]

Hi Ralph,

On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Mr. Oogie Boogie wrote:

> Simply, when boot/root is set to the DoC, kernel messages during
> bootup *do not* appear over the serial line. Strangely, when a boot
> floppy (identical kernel) is used with the DoC as root the kernel
> messages *do* appear over the serial line. 
>  
> Has anyone encountered this problem before?

yes.

> Do you think this is an error with the DoC or kernel?

neither. the LILO you're using is stripped and doesn't parse any
commandline-parameters you want to pass to the kernel.

> Any helpful suggestions on how I can fix this?

I patched the kernel (just calling the function that is called when a
console=-parameter shows up in the commandline upon kernel init).

Works like a charm.

   Count

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