[Clfs-dev] Questions on SVN-20081112-PowerPC64-Multilib on ps3

[John Frankish]

At 09:09 19-11-08, you wrote:
>I just got SVN-20081112-PowerPC64-Multilib (compiled under /clfs 
>using ydl-6 as a host on a ps3) to boot on a ps3:
>
>image=/vmlinux
>label=clfs
>root=/dev/ps3da2
>append="init=/clfs/sbin/pre-init video=ps3fb:mode:13 rhgb quiet"
>read-only
>
>uname -a ...ppc64 Cell Broadband Engine, Altivec Supported GNU/Linux
>
>A couple of questions:
>
>1. During boot, there are many, many messages of the format:
>
>vol_id(909): read seekbuf off: 0x40000 len 0x800
>vol_id(909): probing at offset 0x0
>vol_id(909): get buffer off 0x0(0), len 0x200
>
>Any ideas where this comes from?
>
>2. Sometimes the boot stops at the point where it looks for a dhcp 
>lease - key strokes are echoed on screen, but there's no way to 
>progress or reboot. kboot has already acquired a dhcp lease prior to 
>clfs booting - does ../ifconfig.eth0/dhclient need some parameter or 
>otherwise to drop and re-acquire the kboot lease?
>
>3. I attempted to copy the way ydl is set up - i.e. there is a boot 
>partition /dev/ps3da1 mounted as /boot on the root file system. The 
>clfs build boots like this, but /etc/fstab fails to mount 
>/dev/ps3da1 as /boot. I could always mount this after boot, but any 
>ideas why it doesn't happen automatically?
>
>The SVN-20081112-PowerPC64-Multilib instructions work very well - thanks.
>
>John
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Is there a way to do the boot checks step-wise so I can see which if 
the checks generates all of the vol_id messages?