From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <19990119081330.A10519@tiktok.cygnus.com> Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 13:28:38 -0000 (GMT) From: Gary Thomas To: Michael Meissner Subject: Re: Booting 2.2.0-pre6 on a PowerStack-II (Net 4000/200) Cc: Dan Malek , linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org, Alois Fertl , Johnnie Peters , Cort Dougan , Gary Thomas Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On 19-Jan-99 Michael Meissner wrote: > 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. > I like this idea. I'll see what I can do with it tonight. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Gary Thomas | email: gdt@linuxppc.org | "Fine wine is a necessity of ... opinions expressed here are mine | life for me" and no one else would claim them! | | Thomas Jefferson ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [[ This message was sent via the linuxppc-dev mailing list. Replies are ]] [[ not forced back to the list, so be sure to Cc linuxppc-dev if your ]] [[ reply is of general interest. To unsubscribe from linuxppc-dev, send ]] [[ the message 'unsubscribe' to linuxppc-dev-request@lists.linuxppc.org ]]