Re: milo for PC164

[Jay Estabrook <Jay Estabrook compaq com>]

On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 11:25:32AM -0800, Stephen Williams wrote:
> 
> michal@ellpspace.math.ualberta.ca said:
> > Type 'cat /proc/cmdline'.  You can also check what is says in /var/log/
> > dmesg (or do 'dmesg | less' if this is not logged).
> 
> I was afraid you would say that. So I'm even more confused then
> ever. The command I type at the milo> prompt is exactly:
> 
>     milo> boot sda2:boot/vmlinuz-2.4.9-21 cycle=500000000
> 
> but when it finishes booting I 'cat /proc/cmdline' and see nothing.
> It is as if milo is interpreting the command line, not recognizing
> the cycle= part, and dropping it. I'm using a 2.0.35 based milo
> that is fairly old. If the problem here is what I guess, does anyone
> have a milo that I can try that is known to work on a pc164 w/ ARC
> console? (IntraServer SCSI card.)

IMHO, the problem is between the old MILO and the new kernel.

The old MILO is looking for the command line args in a specific
place (IIRC, something like 0x300000 or thereabouts).

If the new kernel was built *without* legacy start address, then it is
putting the command line args somewhere around 0x800000, which is what
might be causing the problem.

> (The other possibility is to maybe install an SRM console. The very
> thought makes me nervous.)

Well, the only thing to be nervous about, you don't have to worry about,
as your IntraServer SCSI card ought to be recognized by SRM just fine.

--Jay++

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