Re: Linux/EMC

Hi Steve,

Your lilo.conf file is pretty much the same as mine, except that mine uses
hd instead of sd. I don't have the initrd line in mine at all and my root
refers to hdb6 rather than the 5 of yours - I assume your disk is
partitioned differently to mine. I take it that you don't have windows on
this machine as well and that you are defaulting to linux rather than
rtlinux. If this is the case and you have run lilo after rtlinux has
installed ( by going into the directory lilo is in [ /etc ? ] and running
./lilo at the command line ) I would guess that the problem is most likely
with the scsi set up although, if linux itself will run, I can't see how
this can be. When you run the RT patch or reboot do you get any error
messages ( try ./dmesg at the prompt to see the ones you didn't catch as
they scrolled past )?

Ian
--
Ian W. Wright
Sheffield UK

----- Original Message -----
From: Steve Carlisle <quatsein@...>
> boot=/dev/sda
> map=/boot/map
> install=/boot/boot.b
> prompt
> timeout=50
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.36-0.7
> label=linux
> root=/dev/sda5
> initrd=/boot/initrd-2.0.36-0.7.img
> read-only
>
> After the RT script is run the file adds the following
>
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-1
> label=rtlinux
> root=/dev/sda5
> read-only
> append="mem=31m"
>
> and removes the initrd command from the file, and changes
> the sda to hda. I need to create a file similar to the one for
> standard linux, to be used with rt linux. I am currently
> exploring Linuxconf and also the Kernel Configurator, which
> has the scsi_host module listed. Any more idea's that would
> shorten this install up? Thanks,
>
> Steve
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ----------
> From: Ian Wright <Ian@...>
> To: CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@onelist.com
> Subject: Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO]Linux/EMC
> Date: Wednesday, October 13, 1999 11:21 AM
>
> From: "Ian Wright" <Ian@...>
>
> Steve,
> My suggestion could still be valid as, in the case of my first attempt, I
> could get linux up and running fine - 'XFree86' installed and AfterStep
and
> a couple of other utilities. Where it fell down was in setting up RTlinux
> properly. Everything seemed to be OK but I just couldn't get EMC to run in
> anything other than the simulator mode. Before I got to the stage of
> changing the motherboard I was almost tearing my hair out (couldn't
> actually
> as there's hardly any left!). Each time I tried to recompile for RT I was
> getting different error messages - just one or two and easy to miss. I
> wouldn't have thought LILO was so difficult to configure - have you posted
> the script you are using to the list - I may have missed it, and you need
> to
> tell us the set up of your hardware.
>
> Ian
> --
> Ian W. Wright
> Sheffield UK
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Steve Carlisle <quatsein@...>
> .net>
> >
> > Ian, As you know Linux can be configured for just
> > about all hardware, and for sure that which is listed
> > on the compatibility list. My machine runs well under
> > Linux, with all the hardware configured. When I install
> > RTLinux, the LILO configuration in the script is giving
> > me problems, that I am almost posative on because
> > Linux and RTLinux fail at the same point. I am sure
> > I will figure it out, just like all the other hurdles. You
> > learn as you go, and that is great. I can see I am
> > going to enjoy Linux, as compared to Windows
>
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