On Fri, Feb 19, 1999 at 09:08:45PM +0100, Andreas Kainz wrote:
> I have an olivetti m700-10
>
> I installed the root image from /pub/linux/mips/mipsel-linux/root
> and the latest little-endian kernel (2.1.131 I think)
Current sources are 2.2.1, btw. Updated kernel binaries rsn.
> which i installed on a small dos-partition on a scsi-disk
Ok.
> It is running smoothly.
Of course :-)
> my questions:
> 1) Can i permanently set the kernel to boot from a
> certain partition on disk without recompiling it?
> Or: is there a possibility in the ARC Firmware to provide
> the kernel with command line parameters?
Options to be passed to the kernel can either be passed from the ARC command
line in the ``exec a program'' function - or whatever it's called on your
machine. The second alternative to pass options via the ARC environment
variable ``OSLoadOptions''. This latter possibility is temporarily no
no longer working but will be reimplemented again.
Hardwiring options for now is also possible by putting them into arch/mips/-
kernel/setup.c. Just change the line
static char command_line[CL_SIZE] = { 0, };
into
static char command_line[CL_SIZE] = "root=/dev/sdd4";
or similar and rebuild the kernel.
> 2) how do I disable those BOOTP-Requests issued by the kernel when
> booting?
Either recompile your kernel without the CONFIG_ROOT_NFS option or pass a
root=<root-device> option.
> thanks (und danke :-) ) in advance
Ralf
