[coreboot] filo booting cd problem

[Phani Babu Giddi]

Hello All,

Has anybody got a FILO to boot a SLES 10 SP1 DVD ? Even though I give the
path to vmlinuz and initrd it still complains of file not found. Just to be
sure I tried a RHEL CD and it works fine, I can actually see the
installation related tasks on the serial console.

Reagards,
Phani

On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 7:23 PM, <joe at smittys.pointclark.net> wrote:

> Quoting Uwe Hermann <uwe at hermann-uwe.de>:
>
> > On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 07:10:25PM -0400, joe at smittys.pointclark.netwrote:
> >> Quoting Stefan Reinauer <stepan at coresystems.de>:
> >>
> >> > joe at smittys.pointclark.net wrote:
> >> >>>> Also, the documentation is a little misleading. If your using filo
> >> >>>> with grub (USE_GRUB = 1), and want to boot to your linux install
> disk
> >> >>>> you have to do a mixture of grub and filo. Like grub you have to
> >> >>>> append a kernel (and parameters), then an initrd, and give a boot
> >> >>>> command. Like filo you have to give absolute paths.
> >> >>>>
> >> >>> Yes. FILO includes a bunch of GRUB code when USE_GRUB=1. I do not
> >> >>> like GRUB and make sure I always disable USE_GRUB. :)
> >> >>>
> >> >>>
> >> >>>
> >> >> How does everyone feel about adding something like this to the wiki?
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >
> >> > Please! http://www.coreboot.org/FILO is very old and does not reflect
> >> > all details and options of FILO these days.
> >> >
> >>
> >> Updated. How does it look?
> >
> > Thanks! The CDROM part looks ok, but I'm not sure what you mean with the
> > FILO/GRUB example. What do you mean with "mixture of GRUB and FILO
> > commands"?
> >
> > If you use "USE_GRUB=1" then shouldn't this stanza in your menu.lstwork?
> >
> Yes, but you don't have a menu.lst until you install linux, right?
> Just an empty hard drive. The wiki part is just to get the Linux
> install up and working.
> At this point filo has already been built, installed, and pointing to
> menu.lst. But it is not going to find it when it is not there, and the
> drive has not even been partitioned and formatted. Right?
>
> >
> >
> > And if you use "USE_GRUB=0" shouldn't this line work in FILO's "Config"
> file?
> >
> > AUTOBOOT_FILE = "hdc:/GEEXBOX/boot/vmlinuz
> > initrd=/GEEXBOX/boot/initrd.gz root=/dev/ram0 rw init=linuxrc
> > boot=cdrom installator"
> >
> Yup, if you wanted to boot to the installation program and re-install
> Linux every time you turn on the computer "boot=cdrom installator" :-)
>
> Just kidding...
>
>
>
> Thanks - Joe
>
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