At 09:22 AM 4/15/02 -0600, you wrote:
>On Mon, 15 Apr 2002, Yves Godin wrote:
>
> > When I boot my Geode-base system, do I need to use LOBOS to load
> > the kernel that is in my installation tree (on my micro-drive hda) ?
> > Can I boot directly this kernel instead of the one I put in the DOC
> > Mil Plus or can I run linux with the Kernel form the DOC without
> > loading the second one ?
>
>So you are booting linux from DoC?
>
>you have a few choices
>- have linuxbios load the kernel from IDE. For various reasons I don't
> like this
>- put the kernel you intend to run in DoC. I don't like this much either,
> but it is what I do now.
>- put a Tom's Root Boot and a simple shell in a gzip'ed ROMFS on the DoC.
> Have a simple rc script that figures out what kernel to boot, and boots
> it using kmonte or kexec (don't use LOBOS, it is obsolete),
> or interacts with you to boot something else. Somebody was going to do
> this but it has not happened, but I ma looking at it too.
>
>So Yves if you would like to look at Tom's root boot on DoC that would be
>good.
For now I need to get my system fully working as kick as possible. I need
this proof of concept to show that linux on a Geode is able to do what we
need to do. Therefore I will use the kickest way for now. Later, I will be
able nd I will have the time to clean-up things. For example, I plan
re-write my code for the DOC Millenium Plus wich seems to be only half
supported in LinuxBIOS.
Do you use the XFree86 driver from National on your Geode-bases systems ?
Thanks
Yves
