[okl4-developer] okl4 off the disk

[Ashish Bijlani]

Hi, sorry about that. The chipset is "Mobile™ Intel(R) 965PM Express
Chipset". How do I compile-in the support for this chipset? Thanks.

On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 10:05 AM, Geoffrey Lee <glee at ok-labs.com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 11:02:00AM -0400, Ashish Bijlani wrote:
>> thanks for the quick response. I'm using x86 -32 bit platform. This
>> approach doesn't work though. It says kernel panic - VFS couldn't
>> mount rootfs on sda5. Please specify correct root option.
>>
>
> Hi Ashish,
>
> I was more interested in the IDE chipset that you are using.  Sorry
> for not being clear about that.  We only compile a very limited
> set of drivers into OK Linux, it is possible that support for
> your chipset is not compiled in.
>
>        -gl
>
>> Thanks,
>> Ashish
>>
>> On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 10:48 AM, Geoffrey Lee <glee at ok-labs.com> wrote:
>> > 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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