My fault i'm afraid! I had used an old kernel without the neccessary patches. I am now using 2.4.3 and everthing works fine. Sorry for any hassle this has caused. Andy -----Original Message----- From: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com [mailto:owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com]On Behalf Of Guido Guenther Sent: 24 April 2001 22:09 To: Andrew Linfoot Cc: linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: Passing kernel args On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 08:09:13PM +0100, Andrew Linfoot wrote: > Just thought i would let you know of my experience with autobooting. > > I'm having the same problems as Dave in that i must specify a space in > the OSLoadOptions " root=/dev/sda1 ro". However every time i shutdown or > reboot it is truncated to OSLoadOptions= root=/dev/s meaning i have to reset > it after every reboot. Could you please send me the kernel command line with and without using the space (e.g. dmesg | grep "command line") - i still don't see what this should be good for. BTW no need to give root= in OSLoadOptions, you can use OSLoadPartition instead. > > any ideas as to what may be causing this? > I am runnning on an Indy R5K It seems the space in the PROM for OSLoadOptions is quiet limited. The space available seems to differ between different PROM versions though(see the HOWTO, it's in there). > > Also i am using an ELF kernel and not ECOFF as specified in Guido's howto. Doesn't make a difference. ECOFF is just a save bet. -- Guido
