From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JV8Ye-0006fT-Iq for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:58:04 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E2E04E0215; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:58:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from creativecommunications.com (creativecommunications.com [65.17.124.162]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC2E5E0215 for ; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:58:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.178] (unknown [192.168.1.178]) by creativecommunications.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7202168C14C for ; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 10:58:02 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <47C8399A.6020603@gentoo.org> Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 10:58:02 -0600 From: Andrew Gaffney User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071228) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-sparc@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-sparc@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-sparc@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-sparc] QLA2xxx References: <513254.50169.qm@web65407.mail.ac4.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <513254.50169.qm@web65407.mail.ac4.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: a49cd3e8-c983-4623-8bca-76cf7d901839 X-Archives-Hash: 9e6d2976249d453e772fe48903499164 BRM wrote: > --- Ivan Kabaivanov wrote: >> On Thursday 28 February 2008, BRM wrote: >>> Thanks. Quick additional Q though - >>> where's the best place to store the initrd? USB? Floppy? CD? >> the most logical place -- /boot, right next to the kernel image. > > Obviously - but on what storage medium? > > If the kernel can't access the hard drive connected to the QLA2xxx > controller, then I can't mount /boot if it is on the hard drive. Sure, > the OpenBoot PROM might be able to load SILO from the hard drive, but > then can SILO load the kernel from the hard drive (probably)? So, it > comes back to my question - can the system boot from a USB device? > > Otherwise, I have to either do a network boot (not sure how initrd > retrieval works there; but I don't really have the resources to do that > any way), or use the floppy or CD; or go to OpenSolaris. Are you being purposely dense? It's already been stated (probably more than once) that SILO is capable of loading the kernel *and* initramfs from the disk via OBP. You don't need to stick the initramfs on any other medium. As for booting from USB, I'm not sure. I don't have any systems with USB, so I can't test it myself. However, my guess would be no. -- Andrew Gaffney http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ Gentoo Linux Developer Catalyst/Installer + x86 release coordinator -- gentoo-sparc@lists.gentoo.org mailing list