On 10/7/12 2:44 PM, Michał Masłowski wrote: >> First, during the installation it appears that it might be >> necessary to choose mbr instead of gpt. I tried several ways >> using GPT but only got errors when trying to boot even when >> booting manually via PMON. > > True and often reported. > >> Second, booting using boot.cfg is very slow. Is there a way to >> speed that up? Here is the relevant part of boot.cfg >> >> title gNewSense parkes - hda1 kernel >> (wd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz-3.5.3-gnu initrd >> (wd0,0)/boot/initrd.img-3.5.3-gnu args console=tty no_auto_cmd >> root=/dev/sda1 resume=/dev/sda5 libdata.force=80c machtype=8.9 > > Remove the initrd line. It's not needed on the YeeLoong unless you > have encrypted root, non-builtin filesystem or a more exotic > configuration. > Thanks. Removing the initrd line lets it boot normally now. I got it from the installation instructions [1], so perhaps they should be updated.
Regards, /Lars [1] http://wiki.gnewsense.org/Projects/GNewSenseToMIPS#PMON2000_Boot_file_.28boot.cfg.29 _______________________________________________ gNewSense-users mailing list gNewSense-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users
