Re: Indy, booting and EFS
On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 04:01:46PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, Florian Lohoff wrote:
>
> > I dont think you can boot the linux kernel directly. Probably
> > you can put the kernel additionally into the volume header
> > and load the kernel via sash
>
> Not even that, I went ahead and did it, works fine w/o sash.
> Just use dvhtool to load a kernel image in there and then run it from
> the prom on boot. You can tell the prom to do this by changing
> 'OSLoader' from 'sash' to 'linux' (or whatever you named your kernel,
> has to be less than 8 characters I believe).
>
> # dvhtool -v add vmlinux-2.2.14-r4x00-cvs-INDY.ecoff linux /dev/rdsk/dks0d2vh
>
> prom> setenv OSLoader linux
>
> What this means is that you don't need sash at all, and so you may be
> able to install a linux kernel into your volume header w/o having to
> resize it. I was starting out so changed my volume header to be 10M
> instead of 2M.
>
> I did have an issue w/ vmlinux-2.4.0-test6-pre8.ecoff, it would load up
> but then wouldn't start init for some reason. The kernel above worked
> fine though. I do intend to compile my own before too long if possible.
The problem might be that it cant find the rootfs as you need
to give this to the kernel as boot option.
> So, instead of a replacement for sash it sounds like something that can
> understand and modify the volume header would work, perhaps both would
> be good even. I'll see if I can find some time to look at the volume
> header stuff and see if I can make heads or tails of it.
Flo
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