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Re: Lemote YeeLoong (Loongson 2F) in Squeeze



Karl Goetz <karl@kgoetz.id.au> writes:

Hi,

> On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:27:56 +0000
> Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir@cohens.org.il> wrote:
>
>> Hi
>> 
>> I got a new Lemote YeeLoong laptop. 
>> 
>> The existing Debian apt repositories at dev.lemote.com is a bit
>> disapointing, and I wanted to try it with Squeeze. This brings up
>> several issues:
>> 
>> 1. Any equivalent of a live CD? Any way to e.g. boot a kernel+initrd
>> system from the network?
>
> This is two seperate questions - afaik in order the answers are no
> and yes.

I've never played with the pmon version available on yeelong but I've
some stl2f platforms where I can boot on network. The real problem is
about your definition of "booting from network". If you're talking of
PXE, then it's not supported. Otherwise, one can try something like :

- Install a tftp server
- On pmon prompt, use :

PMON> ifaddr <iface> <ip>
(iface can be obtained with devls)
PMON> load tftp://<tftp server ip>/path/to/vmlinux
PMON> initrd tftp://<tftp server ip>/path/to/initrd
PMON> g <kernel parameters>

If all went well, your kernel should be booting now.


Arnaud


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