Re: working on the Alpha port
On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 12:58:31AM +0100, Falk Hueffner wrote:
>
> Hmm, it looks like aboot doesn't support loading the initrd from a
> different floppy than the kernel. (I've only looked at the source,
> though, not really tried it.) So we could either hack aboot, or get
> back to load_ramdisk. What do you think?
It is trivial to get aboot to support it. See attached patch.
> BTW, are you planning on creating any Alpha kernel images udebs?
They're already in the archive.
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--- disk.c.orig 2002-12-13 22:41:46.000000000 +1100
+++ disk.c 2002-12-13 22:41:48.000000000 +1100
@@ -758,6 +758,10 @@
if (initrd_file[0] == 0)
return 0;
+ printf("Please insert the floppy disk with the INITRD image.\n");
+ printf("Press ENTER to continue... ");
+ getline(0, 0);
+
/* work around a bug in the ext2 code */
bfs = mount_fs(dev, boot_part);
if (!bfs) {
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