From: Padraig Brady (padraig.brady at domain corvil.com)
Date: Tue 13 Aug 2002 - 10:05:11 IST
John P. Looney wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 09:53:55AM +0100, Damian O' Sullivan mentioned:
>
>>> Curiously, when I go into the boot prom, an use
>>> "set_params" I can tell it to mount /dev/hda2 as root. But
>>>then it uses the PROM copy of the kernel (dodgy 2.2.16
>>>kernel), which doesn't know ext3, so wants to fsck up my disk.
>>
>>Boot prom on a cobalt? Is this an old mips based one? How did you get to it?
serial I would guess
>
> This is actually a raq3. Though, I do have an old raq2 that Liam was
> helping me get netbsd on (about all you'll get on a 16MB machine these
> days).
>
> Anyway, I wussed out, and copied hda1:/ to hda2:/boot and set the bootfs
> to be hda2. It worked, though it's mounting an ext3fs as ext2. But I'm
> getting there.
>
http://list.cobalt.com/pipermail/cobalt-developers/2001-February/026056.html
Padraig.
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