On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 5:58 AM, Ravishankar <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I was trying to run a linux kernel from FILO but got some errors.The > following explains best what i did. > > 1.Downloaded FILO and built libpayload and FILO > 2. Downloaded and built Coreboot with filo.elf as the image > 3.Created a hard disk image in /home/ravi/ and formatted it > > $ qemu-img create -f raw disk.img 200M > $ mkfs.ext2 -F disk.img > 4.As root, mounted the disk > $mkdir /mnt/rootfs > $mount -o loop disk.img /mnt/rootfs > 5.And copied vmlinuz and initrd from the /boot/ folder(openSuse11.1). > $ mkdir /mnt/rootfs/boot > $ cp /boot/vmlinuz /mnt/rootfs/boot/vmlinuz > $ cp /boot/initrd /mnt/rootfs/boot/initrd > 6.Unmounted /dev/rootfs > 7.Started qemu:qemu -L ~ -hda disk.img -nographic > (i had to copy vgabios-cirrus.bin from /usr/share/qemu to my home directory > beacuse it qemu complained that it was missing) > 8.All is well, i get FILO prompt.Now according to > http://www.coreboot.org/QEMU_Build_Tutorial, i try:
I don't know why this did not work, I guess the default is the new command syntax from grub. > filo>hda:/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda initrd=/boot/initrd console=ttyS0 > Error 27: Unrecognized command > filo> OK, do this first: file> root (hd0) Then: > 9.So i try: > filo>kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda initrd-/boot/initrd console=ttyS0 > filo>boot > Booting '/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda initrd-/boot/initrd console=ttyS0' > read_sector: device not open > File not found. > filo> > > What am i doing wrong ? > It should then work. It works for me. ron -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
