On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 06:54:28AM +0100, Anders Holm mentioned:
> let me guess, you haven't tried the boot parameter root=/dev/hda2 if you
Ah, you see - cobalt's don't use lilo. They have an openboot-like prom
that looks in an ext2 partition in /dev/hda1 for a file called
The only way I think you can set parameters is with a "set_params" line.
It boots the old kernel, I assume from the prom. It seems to do this, if
something goes wrong - no error, just boots the default kernel.

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On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 01:40:21AM +0200, Paul Linehan mentioned:
> And, as I've tried to explain, is not the licence
> terms on, say, trials for commercial company x
> to which I object, it is the way SuSE appears,
> at least to my I.T. peasant self, to have
> mixed up proprietary and open stuff.
Indeed. Personally, I think it's the sort of reprehensible behavior that
split Unix way-back-when into the mess it was in a few years back, before
Linux...got rid of most of them.
Vendors wrote their own wierd-ass installers & config tools to lock
people to their OS, they added all sorts of functionality that was not
availible to other OSes to make themselves different from the competition
(Motif on non-free OSes, incompatible filesystems etc).
While a good idea when you share code & standards, in an environment
where you do neither, the user suffers.
Kate
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