On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Guido Guenther wrote: > OSLoadOptions > See > http://honk.physik.uni-konstanz.de/linux-mips/indy-boot/indy-hd-boot-micro-howto.html > (at the bottom) for an example. Ah thanks - that would have helped a lot if I'd seen that before :-) However there are a couple of points which don't seem to have matched my experience: 1) Disk partitioning. I had a disk that had Irix on, however my first problem was that the volume header wasn't big enough for a Linux kernel. You state that you can use x and then g in fdisk to create a new partition table, however that only works if the disc is clean and doesn't already have an Irix partition on it. In my case since it already did have, x just gave 'sorry there is no expert mode for SG partitions' (or something similar). Having wiped the disc clean with: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda for a few moments I could then do the x and g (thanks to someone on the IRC channel for pointing the x, g thing out prior to you giving me that document). 2) OSLoadPartition - it seems to look at this a little late; i.e. if you have an NFS Root kernel it ignores OSLoadPartition and still NFS roots - so I needed to pass a root= option. 2) OSLoadOptions - the kernel I have (a 2.4.0) gets a string which is: OSLoadOptions=whatEverYouSet So if you: setenv OSLoadOptions "root=/dev/sda1 ro" The kernel actually sees: OSLoadOptions=root=/dev/sda1 ro So I had to do: setenv OSLoadOptions " root=/dev/sda1 ro" Which works like a dream. (Note the trailing space after the first " ) It is also useful to point out that it is the partition(8) in the options that corresponds to the /dev/sda9 in the fdisk output. Thanks again, Dave (Whose Indy, dino, now boots off its disc) -- ---------------- Have a happy GNU millennium! ---------------------- / Dr. David Alan Gilbert | Running GNU/Linux on Alpha, | Happy \ \ gro.gilbert @ treblig.org | 68K,MIPS,x86,ARM and SPARC | In Hex / \ ___________________________|___ http://www.treblig.org |_______/
