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 1JV89T-0000t8-E3 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:32:03 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 31915E084F; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:32:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from web65407.mail.ac4.yahoo.com (web65407.mail.ac4.yahoo.com [76.13.9.27]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9CB96E084F for ; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:32:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 50729 invoked by uid 60001); 29 Feb 2008 16:32:00 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=yetw6bLGr0EVgjVjlzaPJ2T0qfiv/olcVhejx0aiSTJUk1LtQJQH0zAr7TeWiZzlHt99DQXU40kJDGC8RKE7S615ngV5flVVmqvaq7Pzclr5j+snK/dtV136OQLTqUXQx8Dwx5vRep90Eud/Hc/lhShgSmGlGfpsPWlxlYaVrpc=; X-YMail-OSG: 2Yrr4HcVM1lu5pfJUmfzHxJbALsyBuG_5U76WgBA Received: from [132.228.195.206] by web65407.mail.ac4.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:32:00 PST Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:32:00 -0800 (PST) From: BRM Subject: Re: [gentoo-sparc] QLA2xxx To: gentoo-sparc@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <200802281839.45130.chepati@yahoo.com> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Message-ID: <513254.50169.qm@web65407.mail.ac4.yahoo.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 8b54b96b-8e97-45a0-9099-5f6d135e71ac X-Archives-Hash: f13606dfbc9407156b4b354de3447974 --- 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. TIA, Ben --=20 gentoo-sparc@lists.gentoo.org mailing list