Kyle McMartin schrieb:
On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 04:40:21PM +0200, Christian Hilgers wrote:I did not know that VFP does such ugly things. So I retried with vmalloc=256M (Is that a reasonable value?)On 64bit kernels, we went to 1GB vmalloc space.
What would be a reasonable value as there is 1GB RAM installed.
hmm, now everytime I modify the boot parameter the box
does no longer boot at all. This time a boot from network.
Searching for device(s) with bootable media
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Path# Device Path (dec) Device Path (mnem) Device Type and Utilities
----- ----------------- ------------------ -------------------------
P0 0/0/0/0 lan.10.2.1.8 LAN Module
IPL
P1 0/0/1/1.2 intscsib.2 Random access media
IPL
P2 0/0/2/1.2 media.2 Random access media
IPL
Enter Path Number or Device Path to continue boot sequence. Enter NO to go
to main menu.
> p0
Interact with IPL (Y, N, or Cancel)?> y
Booting...
Network Station Address 001083-fc42a3
System IP Address 10.2.1.43
Server IP Address 10.2.1.8
Boot IO Dependent Code (IODC) revision 2
HARD Booted.
palo ipl 1.14 root@duet Sat Apr 8 16:08:16 EDT 2006
Boot image contains:
0/vmlinux32 4190085 bytes @ 0x9800
0/vmlinux64 5796516 bytes @ 0x408800
0/ramdisk 3224993 bytes @ 0x990000
Information: No console specified on kernel command line. This is normal.
PALO will choose the console currently used by firmware (serial).Current command line:
0/linux initrd=0/ramdisk console=ttyS0 TERM=vt102
0: 0/linux
1: initrd=0/ramdisk
2: console=ttyS0
3: TERM=vt102
<#> edit the numbered field
'b' boot with this command line
'r' restore command line
'l' list dir
? 3
TERM=vt102 ramdisk_size=125800 vmalloc=2048M
Current command line:
0/linux initrd=0/ramdisk console=ttyS0 TERM=vt102 ramdisk_size=125800 vmalloc=2048M
0: 0/linux
1: initrd=0/ramdisk
2: console=ttyS0
3: TERM=vt102
4: ramdisk_size=125800
5: vmalloc=2048M
<#> edit the numbered field
'b' boot with this command line
'r' restore command line
'l' list dir
? b
Command line for kernel: ' console=ttyS0 TERM=vt102 ramdisk_size=125800 vmalloc=2048M palo_kernel=0/linux'
Selected kernel: /linux from partition 0
Selected ramdisk: /ramdisk from partition 0
Warning: kernel name doesn't end with 32 or 64 -- Guessing... Choosing 64-bit kernelpdc_iodc_bootin() died during seekread
I left the box for >10min at this point, nothing else happed.
I did power-cycled the box between my tests.
Christian