Re: [Cbe-oss-dev] [ANNOUNCE] petitboot v0.0.1

Re: [Cbe-oss-dev] [ANNOUNCE] petitboot v0.0.1

[David Woodhouse]

On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 23:42 +1000, Jeremy Kerr wrote:
> Benjamin Herrenschmidt and I are proud to announce the first release of 
> petitboot - a graphical bootloader for the PS3, based on twin and 
> kboot.

Fedora packages at http://david.woodhou.se/petitboot/

When I get home next week I'll work on a separate tool which can make a
zImage.ps3.rom given a kernel binary and an initrd -- much like the
existing 'mkzimage' script which does it for OF machines. Then we can
build the otheros.img without having to rebuild the kernel just to get a
zImage out of it.

Hopefully we'll have kexec working in 2.6.21 by then :)

-- 
dwmw2

Re: [Cbe-oss-dev] [ANNOUNCE] petitboot v0.0.1

[Hiroaki Fuse]

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Jeremy-san,

I tried to use petitboot v0.0.1 and found a problem.

I use a following kboot.conf.

---
default=linux
timeout=10
root=LABEL=/
linux='/boot/vmlinux-2.6.16 initrd=/boot/initrd.img-2.6.16 '
linux21='/boot/vmlinux-2.6.21 initrd=/boot/initrd.img-2.6.21 '
---

I saw three entries(root, linux and linux21) and I can not boot any 
kernel.

So I changed my kboot.conf as follows.

---
default=linux
timeout=10
linux='/boot/vmlinux-2.6.16 root=LABEL=/ initrd=/boot/initrd.img-2.6.16 '
linux21='/boot/vmlinux-2.6.21 root=LABEL=/ initrd=/boot/initrd.img-2.6.21 
'
---

And I can boot both kernel.

Best Regards,
Hiroaki Fuse

cbe-oss-dev-bounces+hiroaki_fuse=hq.scei.sony.co.jp@ozlabs.org wrote on 
2007/04/05 22:42:21:
> Hi all,
> 
> Benjamin Herrenschmidt and I are proud to announce the first release of
> petitboot - a graphical bootloader for the PS3, based on twin and
> kboot.
> 
> Details (including screenshots) are available at the petitboot homepage:
> 
> http://ozlabs.org/~jk/projects/petitboot/
> 
> Petitboot is still in early development, but we'd be interested in any
> feedback from this beta. There's a TODO list in the tarball if you're
> interested in helping out.
> 
> Feel free to contact Benjamin and/or myself with comments, bugs, or (our
> favourite:) patches.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> 
> Jeremy
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Re: [Cbe-oss-dev] [ANNOUNCE] petitboot v0.0.1

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 15:20 +0900, Hiroaki Fuse wrote:
> 
> Jeremy-san, 
> 
> I tried to use petitboot v0.0.1 and found a problem. 
> 
> I use a following kboot.conf. 
> 
> --- 
> default=linux 
> timeout=10 
> root=LABEL=/ 
> linux='/boot/vmlinux-2.6.16 initrd=/boot/initrd.img-2.6.16 ' 
> linux21='/boot/vmlinux-2.6.21 initrd=/boot/initrd.img-2.6.21 ' 
> --- 
> 
> I saw three entries(root, linux and linux21) and I can not boot any
> kernel. 
> 
> So I changed my kboot.conf as follows. 
> 
> --- 
> default=linux 
> timeout=10 
> linux='/boot/vmlinux-2.6.16 root=LABEL=/
> initrd=/boot/initrd.img-2.6.16 ' 
> linux21='/boot/vmlinux-2.6.21 root=LABEL=/
> initrd=/boot/initrd.img-2.6.21 ' 
> --- 
> 
> And I can boot both kernel. 

Ok, looks like the kboot parser isn't quite dealing with the root=
stance outside of a kernel spec. We'll fix asap

Ben.