Bug 292790 – Code Listing 3.3: Booting a CD-ROM using SRM specifies incorrect boot flag for serial console installs.

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: [OLD] Docs on www.gentoo.org

[Description Jim B. 2009-11-11 14:31:30 UTC]

Code Listing 3.3: Booting a CD-ROM using SRM

(If you need serial console support)
>>> boot dkb0 -flags 2

Should be 

(If you need serial console support)
>>> boot dkb0 -flags 1


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. boot <boot device> -fl 2 will fail
2. boot <boot device> -fl i 
3. l to list available kernels, you will see that there are two; 0 and 1.
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Actual Results:  
Boot will fail if flag "2" is given

Expected Results:  
boot fails

change documentation to reflect correct boot flag for serial console installations.

[Comment 1 nm (RETIRED) 2009-11-30 07:55:14 UTC]

CCing the Alpha team:

Guys, can you comment on this? This true for all Alpha machines? Thanks!

[Comment 2 Tobias Klausmann (RETIRED) 2009-11-30 09:49:29 UTC]

Yes, -flags 2 is a remnant of the days when we had both 2.4 and 2.6 kernels (0 was 2.6 with vga console, 1 was 2.4 (idem), 2 was 2.6 with serial console and 2.4/serial). I /think/ a fix for this is in the patch I sent you a while ago, but I may be wrong.

That said, the correct value would be "1".

[Comment 3 nm (RETIRED) 2009-11-30 10:07:11 UTC]

Thanks for reporting, and thanks to klausman for confirming. Fixed in CVS.