On Sun, May 16, 2004 at 06:24:42PM +0000, Joel Soete wrote: Hi Joel, > Yes '0/vmlinux64' is what is called 'recovery kernel' in palo.conf and > stand in 'PALO' partition (specific to parisc linux).
I changed it in order to have a boot string more compliant to my needs. > Now that you reach to boot it would be nice that you have a look in > /boot where you would find the usual kernel vmlinux (and also where you > would put other testing kernel before 'production'). And 'df -k' would > also shows a 'boot' fs like: > /dev/sda2 123699 66119 51193 57% /boot > /dev/sda5 1692128 1209236 396936 76% / > > (size came from my own system) and I put in my /etc/palo.conf something > like: > --commandline=2/vmlinux root=/dev/sda5 HOME=/ TERM=vt100 > --init-partitioned=/dev/sda > > (check carefully that sda2 is well your /boot and sda5 your / (ie your > root partition); I just append TERM for you) thanks > and just re-run palo (without parameter it will take /etc/palo.conf as > default in which you say which disk to use: sda). the same for me, but for the boot device (sdb, because of its less capacity). I shall use sda (4.xGB) for application use, or to test d-i as well. That is better, isn't it? > > That said, palo is a bit like grub, it doesn't need to be run each time > you want to use or test a new kernel (like required lilo): just put it > in your /boot with another name like vmlinux-2.6.6-pa3, interupt the > boot and just change the boot cmd with 2/vmlinux-2.6.6-pa3 and b ;-) > Just re-run palo to put in place a new palo, a new kernel that you fill > enough tested and robust for you. yes I know (I worked for HP Italy on hp9000 servers for a while, that is whay I love them so much!) > > >the vt102 terminal get my console *dirty* of character, therefore I prefer > >vt100 with seem a little bit *cleaner*. > >In the syslog of the installer i found: > >root=/dev/ram init=/linuxrc console=ttyS0 TERM=vt100 > >palo_kernel=0/vmlinux64 > > > Well depends of your actual terminal with hp terminal emulating vt200 > and a terminal emulation like minicom vt200 works fine for me. I shall try it > Yes, it's a know issue: it seems to be a licence pb :_( > But Grant seems to confident to obtain something :-) > But there are reports of succesfull use of some pci aty and voodoo2 gfx > card. (have a look in this ml or in the parisc-linux ml) > For my part I was luckyless: I try an aty but it was a card for a sun > and its initialisation is different then a pc model :_( [...] > Well, I hack a bit this stuff and reach to re-compile the Xhp server but > I nerver reach to find how to implement /dev/crt0 ;) > But that was only (not applicable for FX4) in the hope to improve the > color dep of gfx encounter on 712, c110 or b180. > And even if I work much more on this stuff, it will not help a lot > because it would also required to change app libs to use actually more > colors. > > Unfortunately the only ddreasonable hope is Grant . > > Regards, > Joel I hope too, he also said to me that actually it is not supported, maybe in a future? Regards SteX -- ;-P ;-P ;-P http://www.openlabs.it/~stex GPG key: Stefano Melchior (stex) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Key fingerprint = F6A3 6071 -- Keyserver http://pgp.mit.edu Registered user #324592 on the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org
