From: Michael Meissner <meissner@cygnus.com>
To: Gary Thomas <gdt@linuxppc.org>
Cc: Cort Dougan <cort@persephone.cs.nmt.edu>,
Johnnie Peters <jpeters@phx.mcd.mot.com>,
Alois Fertl <alois_fertl@mucmot.muenchen.europe.mcd.mot.com>,
linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org,
Michael Meissner <meissner@cygnus.com>,
Dan Malek <dmalek@jlc.net>
Subject: Re: Booting 2.2.0-pre6 on a PowerStack-II (Net 4000/200)
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 08:13:30 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19990119081330.A10519@tiktok.cygnus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.990119102730.gdt@linuxppc.org>; from Gary Thomas on Tue, Jan 19, 1999 at 10:27:30AM -0000
On Tue, Jan 19, 1999 at 10:27:30AM -0000, Gary Thomas wrote:
>
> On 18-Jan-99 Cort Dougan wrote:
> > Please ship that to me and I'll stick it in.
> >
> > I like Garbriels bootloader and I think it may be worthwhile to make the
> > MBX/PReP bootloader break sometime soon. A relocatable bootloader for
> > prep would solve a lot of problems.
> >
> > }I'll try upgrading to 2.2.0p7 tonight and see how that works.
> > }
>
> Attached are my changes to add [minimal] residual data to PreP booting.
> I've also had to make some minor compatability changes to get extended
> partitions to work with old disks.
I see you added changes to set the initial cmd config. Is there any way we can
add a configure line when building the kernel, so I can build a kernel with
different data (ie, my disk is /dev/sda2 and not /dev/sdb2, etc.). That way it
has a better chance of working if rebooted in the middle of the night due to
power failure.
--
Michael Meissner, Cygnus Solutions (Massachusetts office)
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Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-01-12 22:43 Booting 2.2.0-pre6 on a PowerStack-II (Net 4000/200) Michael Meissner
1999-01-13 20:10 ` Cort Dougan
1999-01-15 15:28 ` Alois Fertl
1999-01-15 20:10 ` Cort Dougan
1999-01-15 21:58 ` Michael Meissner
1999-01-15 22:04 ` Cort Dougan
1999-01-15 23:33 ` Michael Meissner
1999-01-18 8:51 ` Alois Fertl
1999-01-16 1:49 ` Johnnie Peters
1999-01-16 18:54 ` Dan Malek
1999-01-17 18:58 ` Cort Dougan
1999-01-18 9:21 ` Gabriel Paubert
1999-01-18 13:01 ` Gary Thomas
1999-01-18 16:54 ` Cort Dougan
1999-01-18 17:58 ` Michael Meissner
1999-01-19 22:43 ` Michael Meissner
1999-01-20 0:18 ` Johnnie Peters
1999-01-20 3:53 ` 3-button mouse Brent H Mundy
1999-01-20 22:20 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
1999-01-21 9:34 ` pre8(vger) kills button 3 on 1-button mouse Martin Costabel
1999-01-21 10:05 ` 3-button mouse fritzwe.linux
1999-01-20 15:21 ` Booting 2.2.0-pre6 on a PowerStack-II (Net 4000/200) Gary Thomas
1999-01-20 15:31 ` Johnnie Peters
1999-01-21 23:46 ` Johnnie Peters
1999-01-22 1:52 ` Michael Meissner
1999-01-22 2:04 ` Cort Dougan
1999-01-22 7:54 ` Gary Thomas
1999-01-22 8:19 ` Cort Dougan
1999-01-22 11:07 ` Gary Thomas
1999-01-22 15:17 ` Johnnie Peters
1999-02-01 15:58 ` Michael Meissner
1999-02-01 16:18 ` Gary Thomas
1999-02-04 19:09 ` Michael Meissner
1999-02-04 19:21 ` Gary Thomas
1999-02-04 20:23 ` Michael Meissner
[not found] ` <XFMail.990119102730.gdt@linuxppc.org>
1999-01-19 13:13 ` Michael Meissner [this message]
1999-01-19 13:28 ` Gary Thomas
1999-01-19 18:54 ` Dan Malek
1999-01-20 13:56 ` Loic Prylli
1999-01-18 18:11 ` Dan Malek
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1999-01-16 2:23 Johnnie Peters
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