Re: [cobalt-developers] problems booting the redhat 7.3 kernel on a raq3

["John P. Looney" <valen@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 10:40:45AM +0100, John P. Looney mentioned:
>  So, it keeps booting the old ROM kernel. Why ? 

 To answer myself - it turns out that the gzipped vmlinux wasn't complete.
I think I may have been stupid, and done

 gzip -9c vmlinux > vmlinux.gz

    instead of 

 gzip -9c < vmlinux > vmlinux.gz

 However, I have a second problem. It is now loading the RedHat 2.4.18
kernel, but won't mount /dev/hda2 as / 

 I tryed using rdev on /boot/vmlinux before gzipping it, and I tried
setting the kernel parameters, using "set_params" in the PROMs boot menu,
but had no luck. With rdev, it booted 2.4.18, and then mounted /dev/hda1,
and with set_params it loaded 2.2.16 (so I could have been using
set_params incorrectly - i ran 'set_params "root=/dev/hda2 ro
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.18-3.img"'.

 Are the complete syntaxes of the PROM commands listed anywhere ? The help
screen doesn't seem...that helpful. 

John