From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailserv2.iuinc.com (IDENT:qmailr@mailserv2.iuinc.com [206.245.164.55]) by puffin.external.hp.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA18018 for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 10:48:50 -0600 Message-Id: <200010181654.JAA14222@milano.cup.hp.com> To: James Waterhouse Cc: "parisc-linux@thepuffingroup.com" Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] booting on 712/60 In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 18 Oct 2000 03:03:23 PDT." <39ED4B3B.85348ED2@videotron.ca> Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 09:54:05 -0700 From: Grant Grundler List-ID: 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