From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: "Márcio Oliveira" <moliveira@latinsourcetech.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Problem with kernel image in a Prep Boot on PowerPC
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 14:01:12 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050824180110.GE1100@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <430CB3EC.2000502@latinsourcetech.com>
On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 02:52:44PM -0300, Márcio Oliveira wrote:
> The command rdev can change the default root partition on x86 linux
> systems with pre-built kernels.
Of course...I meant I don't know of anything like that for PPC.
> About the CONFIG_CMDLINE in the kernel configuration, I found it in lots
> of files in the kernel source tree and I'd like to know which file I
> need to change this value (/usr/src/linux/arch/ppc64/defconfig ?).
Probably just in your .config file:
cp arch/ppc64/defconfig .config
vi .config # Change CONFIG_CMDLINE here
make oldconfig
> According to this doc:
> http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/eserver/library/es-SW_RAID_LINUX.html,
> ppc64 can use zImage-style boot wrapper, so I'm trying it.
Cool...I think you will like having that as an option.
John
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John W. Linville
linville@tuxdriver.com
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-24 15:05 Problem with kernel image in a Prep Boot on PowerPC Márcio Oliveira
2005-08-24 16:31 ` John W. Linville
2005-08-24 17:52 ` Márcio Oliveira
2005-08-24 18:01 ` John W. Linville [this message]
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