Re kernel parms - thanks for the pointer to the lilo.conf in buildit.s - that worked.
My customized tomsrtbt now has 320 free sectors - what else shall I put on ...
John ----Original Message Follows----
From: Tom Oehser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [tomsrtbt] no hang on 2.0.105! (was: hang during boot on 2.0.103 - not ....)
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 17:35:43 -0400 (EDT)
It never even occurred to me that a mouse would be useful during system recovery and emergency restoration, it is honestly so low on the priority list to even think about mice that I've never thought about it. -
On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, John Lumby wrote:
> Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2003 16:17:11 -0400
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [tomsrtbt] no hang on 2.0.105! (was: hang during boot on
> 2.0.103 - not ....)
>
> Thanks. Any comment about mouse?
>
> John
> ----Original Message Follows----
> From: Tom Oehser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [tomsrtbt] no hang on 2.0.105! (was: hang during boot on 2.0.103 - not ....)
> Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 09:31:24 -0400 (EDT)
>
> > Question:
> > is there a way to pre-set kernel boot parms? I suppose there must be but I
> > missed how to. I built the parport and plip into the kernel (actually I got
> > rid of all modules and module support) but now I'd like a way of setting the
> > parport device address so I don't have to type it (or forget it) every time,
> > as the autoprobe gets it wrong. Actually even when I type it as e.g.
> > bz2bzImage parport=0x3BC,7
> > it still ends up assigning address 0x378 so maybe this kernel parm simply
> > doesn't work?
> You can use the 'append=' directive in the lilo conf file (which is inline in buildit.s for tomsrtbt),
> here is a sample line from a lilo configuration:
> append = "reboot=cold parport=0x378,7 idebus=66 ide0=dma ide1=dma hda=autotune hdc=autotune"
> But, that line is from a 2.4.x kernel- maybe 2.2.x had difference, I forget.
> -Tom
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