On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 11:16:52AM -0500, Rich Johnson wrote:
> On Friday, February 11, 2005, at 03:15 AM, Hans Ekbrand wrote:
[...]
> > I am also interesting boot with quick, but I thought that required
> > an
> > non-initrd kernel.
[...]
> Modern quik supports initrd. I have an old-world 7200 which, after a
> dist-upgrade, is happily running sarge/testing (3.1?) with a stock 2.6
> kernel. Here's the relevant info:
[...]
Ok I have the same software installad as you listed and copied the
values for /etc/quick.conf.
pc236:~# ls -l /boot/vmlinux-2.6.8-powerpc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3966115 Jan 9 00:54 /boot/vmlinux-2.6.8-powerpc
pc236:~# ls -l /boot/initrd.img-2.6.8-powerpc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4825088 Jan 20 15:47 /boot/initrd.img-2.6.8-powerpc
pc236:~# more /etc/quik.conf
image=/boot/vmlinux-2.6.8-powerpc
append="root=/dev/ram"
initrd=/boot/initrd.img-2.6.8-powerpc
label=Linux
read-only
#root=/dev/hda6
# Generated by quikconfig
# (C) 1998 Matt McLean <keys@yikes.com>
# partition=3
# map=/boot/map
#timeout=20
#image=/boot/vmlinux
#label=Linux
#read-only
Do I have to manually use nvsetnv to make it work. I am suspicious of
the line
"boot-device /AAPL,ROM"
below?
pc236:~# quik -v
Second-stage loader is on /dev/hda6
Config file is on partition 6
Writing first-stage QUIK boot block to /dev/hda6
Making /dev/hda6 bootable (map entry 6)
Writing block table to boot block on /dev/hda6
pc236:~# nvsetenv
little-endian? false
real-mode? false
auto-boot? true
diag-switch? false
fcode-debug? false
oem-banner? false
oem-logo? false
use-nvramrc? false
real-base 0xffffffff
real-size 0x100000
virt-base 0xffffffff
virt-size 0x100000
load-base 0x4000
pci-probe-list 0xffffffff
screen-#columns 0x64
screen-#rows 0x28
selftest-#megs 0x0
boot-device /AAPL,ROM
boot-file
diag-device fd:diags
diag-file
input-device ttya
output-device ttya
oem-banner
oem-logo
nvramrc
boot-command boot
pc236:~#
--
Note that I use Debian version 3.1
Linux emac140 2.6.9-1-686 #1 Thu Nov 25 03:48:29 EST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux
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