Re: intimate boot

Hi there,

Your problem is your linuxargs... Due to historical reasons, you used to
have to set the linuxargs in the bootloader using the serial console...
Then it got chnaged, and for a while I didn't know what was needed...
No-one's updated the intimateboot package since then.

Here's the quick solution...

Create a file under familiar called /boot/params which contains the
following line

set linuxargs "noinitrd root=/dev/mtdblock1 init=/linuxrc.intimate
console=ttySA0"

The bootloader will read the /boot/params file when it starts up, and
pretends that you've typed the commands in on the serial console :)... If
you have problems with the params file, you can always go in and manually
override it yourself.

Hope this gets you working,

Jim

At 11:17 12/05/2002 -0700, kyi wrote:
>I have installed Intimate onto a IBM Travlestar 6.4gig w/ ide pcmcia
>controler, seen by
>the system as hda. Familiar sees it just fine w/o modifactions. I Had no
>errors installing
>Intimate but when I reboot w/ hd attached intimate never comes up. Am I
>missing something here. Or is there something
>that I still need to do that the online instructions don't cover.
>
>I can see the linuxrc.intimate on '/', although it seems that it never
>gets called. Thanks
>in advance for any help.
>
>-Jayson Garrell
>
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Received on Mon May 13 13:28:06 2002