[Smaug] Kernel parm help

[cerise@armory.com]

On first blush (and it's quite possible that I've misunderstood), it sounds
like this is a BIOS problem, not a linux problem.  Will the BIOS explicitly
boot off of a USB CF and have you tested it?

-Phil/CERisE

On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 10:28:30AM -0800, William Estrada wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
>  I am working on a new project that involves building a bootable USB CF 
> system.  The
> script to create the image is working.  My problem is what options in 
> the grub
> configuation file do I need to make the system diskless? 
> 
>  My grub.conf looks like this:
> 
>    # Change colors to show that this conf file was used.
>    color green/blue black/red
>    boot=/dev/sda1
>    default=0
>    timeout=60
>    splashimage=(hd2,0)/boot/grub/rootfs.jpg.gz
> 
>    # Compact Flash
>    title CF Embedded RAM SDA1
>            root (hd2,0)
>            kernel /boot/bzImage rw root=/dev/sda1 rhgb vga=0x31B
>    video=rivafb \
>                   ramdisk_size=100000 prompt_ramdisk=1
>            initrd /boot/rootfs.gz
> 
>    # local hard drive
>    title Internal Embedded System Test
>            root (hd1,11)
>            kernel /boot/bzImage rw rhgb vga=0x31B video=rivafb \
>            ramdisk_size=100000 prompt_ramdisk=1
>            initrd /boot/rootfs.gz
> 
>  My device,map looks like this:
> 
>    (fd0)   /dev/fd0
>    (hd0)   /dev/hda
>    (hd1)   /dev/hdb
>    (hd2)   /dev/sda
> 
>  At boot, grub menu comes up but I get boot errors ( many different 
> flavors ).  It
> finds the rootfs.gz on the local hard drive but not the CF (/dev/sda1).  The
> hard drive does not create or use the RAM disk.  And of course, I can't 
> get a hard
> copy of the boot log.
> 
>  Also, the splashimage is not used.
> 
>  Any ideas?
> 
> 
> 
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