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[Ronald G. Minnich]

at www.acl.lanl.gov/linuxbios I've placed the code to let linux boot
linux.

questions, comments, fixes to me.

Ron

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[Marcel Wijlaars]

"Ronald G. Minnich" wrote:
> at www.acl.lanl.gov/linuxbios I've placed the code to let linux boot
> linux.
>
> questions, comments, fixes to me.

I don't see no link or somthing to the code. Could you be a bit more
specific.

thanks,

Marcel Wijlaars

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[Ronald G. Minnich]

On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, Marcel Wijlaars wrote:
> I don't see no link or somthing to the code. Could you be a bit more
> specific.

My fault. Please check back in an hour. I got hammered by the updater
script.

ron

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[Marcel Wijlaars]

"Ronald G. Minnich" wrote:
> at www.acl.lanl.gov/linuxbios I've placed the code to let linux boot
> linux.
>
> questions, comments, fixes to me.
>
> Ron

If I compile tbootfile.c with gcc -o tbootfile tbootfile.c gcc says

tbootfile.c: In function `bootfile':
tbootfile.c:7: `SYS_bootfile' undeclared (first use this function)
tbootfile.c:7: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
tbootfile.c:7: for each function it appears in.)

Do you know what I do wrong?

thanks in advance,

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[Ronald G. Minnich]

On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Marcel Wijlaars wrote:
> tbootfile.c: In function `bootfile':
> tbootfile.c:7: `SYS_bootfile' undeclared (first use this function)
> tbootfile.c:7: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
> tbootfile.c:7: for each function it appears in.)

Here's my code:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <syscall.h>

#define __NR_bootfile 191

_syscall1(int, bootfile, char *, name);

int 
main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
  char *name =  "test";
  if (argc > 1)
    name = argv[1];
  printf("name is %p\n", name);
  bootfile(name);
}

I just compiled this without error. Here's my gcc:
> gcc -v -v

Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/egcs-2.91.66/specs
gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)
>

Here's my linux:
> uname -a

Linux mini 2.2.13 #1 SMP Thu Dec 2 12:52:17 MST 1999 i686 unknown
>

Try the stuff I pasted into this message, although I just loaded it from
the web page and it worked fine.

ron

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[Marcel Wijlaars]

"Ronald G. Minnich" wrote:
> Try the stuff I pasted into this message, although I just loaded it from
> the web page and it worked fine.
>
> ron
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I tried it at home last night and compiled just fine  but didn't word
because of the scsi thing.
I use a rather old linux distribution at work, maybe thats why it did not
work.
I'll try again at work with a new linux distibution and a ide disk.

Marcel Wijlaars                         ([phone]
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering,        section Materials Technology
Eindhoven University of Technology,     P.O. Box 513 NL-5600 MB  Eindhoven
The Netherlands

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[Ronald G. Minnich]

On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Marcel Wijlaars wrote:
> I tried it at home last night and compiled just fine  but didn't word
> because of the scsi thing.
> I use a rather old linux distribution at work, maybe thats why it did not
> work.
> I'll try again at work with a new linux distibution and a ide disk.

great, if you can tell me what's up with scsi bootparams I'll try to fix
it at my end. Or, even better, if you fix it i'll take your patch :-)

ron

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[Marcel Wijlaars]

"Ronald G. Minnich" wrote:
> great, if you can tell me what's up with scsi bootparams I'll try to fix
> it at my end. Or, even better, if you fix it i'll take your patch :-)
>
> ron

Could you be a bit more specific about the scsi bootparams, I do not
understand what you mean by this.

My system at home is a DUAL  PII (GA 686DLX). Linux 2.2.13 ( for testing no
smp) and a number of scsi disk  /dev/sda1 = /, /dev/sdb1= /home, /dev/sdc1 =
/usr/local. (also a scsi cdrom and zipdisk but these are not mounted) .

I like to help but I'm no good at kernel hacking, I'm sorry.

Hope to help,

Marcel Wijlaars                         ([phone]
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering,        section Materials Technology
Eindhoven University of Technology,     P.O. Box 513 NL-5600 MB  Eindhoven
The Netherlands

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[Ronald G. Minnich]

On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Marcel Wijlaars wrote:
> Could you be a bit more specific about the scsi bootparams, I do not
> understand what you mean by this.

I think when the kernel reboots via LOBOS it is missing some boot params
(i.e. the lilo arguments) so that it knows how to grab the root device.

I'll look some more too.

ron

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