Re: State of the PA-RISC/HPPA port (August 2013)
On 3-Aug-13, at 11:41 PM, Dave Land wrote:
After talking with Helge off-list, I finally got my box (Visualize
J6750) to boot to the 'real' OS on the HDD, but I'm still working
out some issues with palo, so it will actually find the working root
partition without intervention from me. ;)
The root= parameter mostly works for me. However, different kernels
sometimes change the order of
disk discovery when you have multiple drives. Helge thinks it would
be easy to specify file system by
uuid. This would work well for non recovery situations. Another
thought is to specify the root partition
by number assuming it has to be on same drive as boot kernel.
I have an inexpensive portable USB drive connected to one of my
systems. It comes up as /dev/sda
at boot and messes up the drive order. Not exactly plug and play...
After a kernel decides which drive order to use, I boot manually
setting root=/dev/sdXY to the correct
drive and partition. Then, I edit /etc/palo.conf to correct the root
setting and rerun palo. One can use
the palo -f option to specify a specific conf file if one has multiple
boot drives.
I'm not sure the "new" ext2/ext3 scheme described on the wiki works.
I tried it yesterday. After running
the palo command to make a filesystem on the F0 partition, I wasn't
able to mount it. So, I went back to
old hidden partition scheme.
There is a small bug decompressing gzipped kernels. I see error
message at end of process but it
doesn't seem to affect the boot. This cuts kernel size by about 1/3.
Dave
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John David Anglin dave.anglin@bell.net
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