Ashwin Bihari said: > > Greetings, > > I'm using a PrPMC800 with Motorola's PPC7-BUG> to boot Linux. I've got a > working kernel and everything works fine. I've used the default boot args > of: console=ttys0,9600 console=tty0 root=/dev/hde2 noinitrd. > > This, of course, means that if we decide to change the location of root, or > more appropriately decide to have two separate roots between which we would > have switch back and forth, I'll have to recompile the kernel with the new > string and then put that onto the PReP partition. > > What I would ideally like to do is have a Linux: prompt appear after I boot > into the PReP partition to allow me to have a default string and then change > it if I decided to chagne root on the fly.. > > Has anyone done anything similar or have any tips for me?
This is SOP for the embedded boards. Look at arch/ppc/boot/embedded for some guidelines on how to do it. ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
