Lilo-mtd passes garbage as kernel command line
Hello,
I'm using lilo-mtd (lilo 21 with the patch available on the website) to boot on a DOC. It works but I have a little problem. It looks like lilo is passing garbage to the kernel as kernel command line.
During the boot there's a message saying:
Kernel command line: <insert esoteric garbage here>
Also I noticed that any argument given in the append configuration item in lilo.conf is not used... which is understandable if the kernel really see the garbage as its command line.
Does anyone else experience the same problem ? How can I help you track this bug down ?
I use a stock 2.4.19 kernel.
I tried to understand where the kernel looks for its command line arguments and where lilo puts them but it's a bit complicated for me.
Cheers,
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Raphaël Hertzog - EIPM SA
I once enabled the serial port control in lilo but left a serial mouse attached. It seems lilo interacts with video/keyboard and serial port at the same time, duplicating output into both.
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I'm using lilo-mtd (lilo 21 with the patch available on the website) to boot on a DOC. It works but I have a little problem. It looks like lilo is passing garbage to the kernel as kernel command line.
Am Don, 2003-01-23 um 15.31 schrieb Ilguiz Latypov:
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I once enabled the serial port control in lilo but left a serial mouse attached. It seems lilo interacts with video/keyboard and serial port at the same time, duplicating output into both.
I think it's totally unrelated to my problem. The lilo and the DOC are on an embedded PC without VGA output but with serial ports and I do see the garbage with the boot messages that are sent via the serial line...
Also I try to pass the parameter "console=null" to prevent the kernel from sending those messages but it doesn't work as it used to when I was uing "doc-lilo" from m-sys (associated to their binary-only driver :-().
BTW, along with the patch for lilo there's a "boot.b-mtd", where are the sources for this file ?
Cheers,
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Am Don, 2003-01-23 um 15.42 schrieb Raphael Hertzog:
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BTW, along with the patch for lilo there's a "boot.b-mtd", where are the sources for this file ?
Does anybody know that ?
Who wrote the lilo patch ?
I'd really like to be able to use lilo since it's much more convenient than grub to install in particular when you must prepare dozen of disk on chips ... so I'm willing to try to dig in the code to find out myself what's wrong if possible but for that I need at least the complete sources.
Cheers,
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