Booting 2.2.0-pre6 on a PowerStack-II (Net 4000/200)

[Gary Thomas]

On 19-Jan-99 Michael Meissner wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 19, 1999 at 10:27:30AM -0000, Gary Thomas wrote:
>> 
>> On 18-Jan-99 Cort Dougan wrote:
>> > Please ship that to me and I'll stick it in.
>> > 
>> > I like Garbriels bootloader and I think it may be worthwhile to make the
>> > MBX/PReP bootloader break sometime soon.  A relocatable bootloader for
>> > prep would solve a lot of problems.
>> > 
>> > }I'll try upgrading to 2.2.0p7 tonight and see how that works.
>> > }
>> 
>> Attached are my changes to add [minimal] residual data to PreP booting.
>> I've also had to make some minor compatability changes to get extended
>> partitions to work with old disks.
> 
> I see you added changes to set the initial cmd config.  Is there any way we can
> add a configure line when building the kernel, so I can build a kernel with
> different data (ie, my disk is /dev/sda2 and not /dev/sdb2, etc.).  That way it
> has a better chance of working if rebooted in the middle of the night due to
> power failure.
> 

I like this idea.  I'll see what I can do with it tonight.

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