[okl4-developer] okl4 off the disk

[Geoffrey Lee]

On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 10:13:19AM -0400, Ashish Bijlani wrote:
> hi,
> 
> I'm using grub, which says:
> 
> root(hd0,4)
> kernel=/boot/image.elf
> 
> The Sconscript file at line 104 says:
> 
> "vmlinux", "root=/dev/sda5 console=tty0"

This should work, what chipset do you have?

	-gl

> 
> Please lemme know, in case I'm missing something.
> 
> Thanks,
> Ashish
> 
> On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 11:54 PM, Josh Matthews <jmatthews at ok-labs.com> wrote:
> > Hi Ashish,
> >
> > On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 7:05 AM, Ashish Bijlani <ashish.bijlani at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> How do I disable ramdisk usage in okl4 and make it boot off the hard
> >> disk. I tried changing kernel command line options in
> >> linux/kernel-2.6.23-v2/Sconscript but it doesn't seem to make any
> >> difference; it cause kernel panic as VFS is not able to detect the
> >> partition. I'm using okl4 4.2 release. Please help me.
> >
> > What boot loader are you using on your hardware?
> >
> > In general there are two steps to getting OKL4/OK Linux to boot off the hard
> > disk - modification of the root= option in linux/kernel/SConscript (at line
> > 104), and configuration of your bootloader.
> >
> > Could you post both that line in your SConscript and some more details of
> > your bootloader usage?
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Josh Matthews
> 
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