Hi all, actually I am using kernel 2.6.23-1-loongson2e-64 with initrd. My problem is that every time I boot the machine, I have to type long commands "initrd ..." the "load ...." then "g ...".
I would like to make it automatically. I browsed the web looking for information and I found that pmon may use a boot.cfg file, so I installed the pmon-tools package and let update-pmon create my /boot/boot.cfg and create a link from /boot.cfg to this file. The boot.cfg seems correct, but I *never* found complete documentation about this file format. All examples I found never show the initrd parameter. This is my file (without comments): ========= start /boot/boot.cfg ======================================= default 0 showmenu 1 timeout 10 title RAYS for loongson (2.6.28-fulong2e) kernel /dev/fs/e...@wd0/boot/vmlinux-2.6.28-fulong2e args console=tty root=/dev/hda1 ro video=radeonfb:1024x768 vga=791 idebus=66 ide0=ata66 ide_core.ignore_cable=0 splash quiet title RAYS for loongson (2.6.23-1-loongson2e-64) kernel /dev/fs/e...@wd0/boot/vmlinux-2.6.23-1-loongson2e-64 args console=tty root=/dev/hda1 ro video=radeonfb:1024x768 vga=791 idebus=66 ide0=ata66 ide_core.ignore_cable=0 splash quiet initrd /dev/fs/e...@wd0/boot/initrd.img-2.6.23-1-loongson2e-64 ========= end /boot/boot.cfg ======================================= now, when I boot the machine, I see no "ShowBootMenu" variable, so the boot.cfg should be used, but it's not: when I power on the machine, then pmon tries to load the kernel specified in the variable "al" and the kernel crashes since no initrd image has been loaded. According to what is available at http://wiki.gnewsense.org/Projects/gNewSenseToMIPS, I think I have the wrong pmon2000, since I am missing two commands: "path" and "dir". I am not really sure about this, since both commands are used in examples related to 8089 hardware. When I issue the command "vers" at the "PMON>" prompt, I get PMON2000 2.1 bonito #405. Anyone may help? Thanks, Giuseppe _______________________________________________ gNewSense-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-dev
