[OpenBIOS] [commit] r793 - in trunk/openbios-devel/fs: hfs hfsplus

Blue Swirl blauwirbel at gmail.com
Mon Jun 14 20:39:51 CEST 2010


On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 6:25 PM, Tarl Neustaedter <tarl-b2 at tarl.net> wrote:
> On 2010-6-14 2:15 PM, Blue Swirl wrote:
>>
>> [...]
>> bootinfo.txt contains the following:
>> <chrp-boot>
>> <description>openSuSE 11.1</description>
>> <os-name>openSuSE 11.1</os-name>
>> <boot-script>boot&device;:1,\suseboot\yaboot.ibm</boot-script>
>> </chrp-boot>
>>
>>
>
> You might try replacing that comma with a space. The "boot" command takes
> two arguments; the device and the arguments, where "arguments" is frequently
> the filespec to be booted (it's passed to the secondary booter in
> "/chosen:bootargs").
>
> The case I knew of replacing "/" with "|" and appending with a comma was in
> the network boot code, a special case not relevant for here.
>
> Either way, it appears that the comma before the \suseboot was being passed
> as part of the filespec, so no surprise things got confused.

I don't think that is the case, because the element specifies the boot
script (actually executable), not boot args. After the conversions,
the path should be cdrom:1,\suseboot\yaboot.ibm, where 1 is the
partition number.



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