On Sat, Jul 20, 2002 at 05:29:57PM +0200, Guido Guenther wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 20, 2002 at 04:46:49PM +0200, Krzysztof Krzyzaniak wrote:
> > I wonder if arcboot can boot ext3 partitions. I've tried but all my tries
> > failed.
> It can since it doesn't make a difference for arcboot. Which version of
> arcboot are you using? Could you try 0.3.3 from unstable?

Yes. I have:

setenv OSLoader arcboot
setenv OSLoadFileName linux
setenv SystemPartition scsi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(8)
setenv OSLoadPartition scsi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(2)

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~{8}# dpkg -l arcboot
[..]
ii  arcboot        0.3.3 bootloader for SGI/MIPS IP22 machines

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~{9}# arcboot /dev/sda
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~{10}# more /etc/arcboot.conf
# arcboot.conf
#
# copyright 2002 Guido Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
#
label=linux
        image=/vmlinux
        append="root=/dev/sda1"
                
# backup version
label=old
        image=/vmlinux.old
        append="root=/dev/sda1"

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~{11}# file /vmlinux
/vmlinux: symbolic link to boot/vmlinux-2.4.18-r5k-ip22

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~{13}# file /boot/vmlinux-2.4.18-r5k-ip22
/boot/vmlinux-2.4.18-r5k-ip22: ELF 32-bit MSB executable, mips-2 MIPS
R3000_BE, version 1 (SYSV), statically linked, not stripped

and when I boot with arcboot I have:

arcboot: ARC Linux ext2fs loader

ext2fs -
Exception: <vector=UTLB Miss>
Status Register: 0x30004804<CU1,CU0,IM7,IPL=???,MODE=KERNEL,EXL,IE>
Cause Register: 0x8008<CE=0,IP8,EXC=RMISS>
Exception PC: 0x8831ae0c, Exception RA: 0x8831a50c
exception, bad adres: 0x0
[.. some hexes ..]

PANIC: Unexpected exception

  eloy
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