On Sat, 2013-05-25 at 09:40 -0400, Dean Maluski wrote: > Running 2 6501's in vehicles on inverters. On the average I've been > dropping to GRUB prompt 1 out of 7 reboots which is too often in my > particular application! > Last night I found this excellent write-up on how to convert Debian > installs to LILO. > http://users.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/lilo.htm > > Below is my manual build of /etc/lilo.conf running on NET6501 with one > onboard SSD drive. > If I leave the > append="console=ttyS0,9600" > off it boots in about 10 seconds after the LILO 4 second timeout. > With append I get more feedback on serial port than I did with GRUB and > it takes about 30 seconds to boot. Not necessarily a problem for me just > an observation. > What was a problem was Grub dropping out and having to hit the reset > button. > Too soon to tell if my troubles are in the past. I hope so! > > I'm pleased to report that since replacing Grub with Lilo I haven't had a > single issue and I've intentionally booted and rebooted excessively over the > last 3 or 4 days.
> > #/etc/lilo.conf > # > # global options > # > boot=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-TS4GMSA500_20120919A37292131654 > compact > default=Linux > delay=40 > install=text > large-memory > lba32 > root="UUID=c333814a-ef3d-41be-b873-d7ed752f8216" > read-only > vga=normal > # > # per-image options > # > image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-686 > label=Linux > initrd=/boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-5-686 > append="console=ttyS0,9600" > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Soekris-tech mailing list > Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com > http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech > _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
