[Cbe-oss-dev] [ANNOUNCE] petitboot v0.0.1

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Fri Apr 13 18:54:38 EST 2007


On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 15:20 +0900, Hiroaki Fuse wrote:
> 
> Jeremy-san, 
> 
> I tried to use petitboot v0.0.1 and found a problem. 
> 
> I use a following kboot.conf. 
> 
> --- 
> default=linux 
> timeout=10 
> root=LABEL=/ 
> linux='/boot/vmlinux-2.6.16 initrd=/boot/initrd.img-2.6.16 ' 
> linux21='/boot/vmlinux-2.6.21 initrd=/boot/initrd.img-2.6.21 ' 
> --- 
> 
> I saw three entries(root, linux and linux21) and I can not boot any
> kernel. 
> 
> So I changed my kboot.conf as follows. 
> 
> --- 
> default=linux 
> timeout=10 
> linux='/boot/vmlinux-2.6.16 root=LABEL=/
> initrd=/boot/initrd.img-2.6.16 ' 
> linux21='/boot/vmlinux-2.6.21 root=LABEL=/
> initrd=/boot/initrd.img-2.6.21 ' 
> --- 
> 
> And I can boot both kernel. 

Ok, looks like the kboot parser isn't quite dealing with the root=
stance outside of a kernel spec. We'll fix asap

Ben.





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