Re: AW: Boot_up.axf

[dvb@muntstraat9.demon.nl]

Hey Carsten,

What are these module parameters? I 'll try to include them in my conf.modules.

Tia,

Martijn

> Hi Martijn,
> 
> I had the same trouble and I fixed it with three extra module parameters for
> dvb.o to define where the files boot_up.afx, Root and Dpram are. I use
> Caldera Linux and would like to be compatible with COAS (a system management
> utility). Even though all these files were in the same directory
> (/lib/modules/2.2.14/misc) the module dvb.o did never find the other
> binaries during insmod while booting (without the parameters).
> 
> My patch is not very clever (3 times the same path), so someone more
> experienced should implement this permanently in the source.
> 
> There should at least one parameter for giving the path of boot_up.afx, Root
> and Dpram. If no parameter is given then it looks per default in the current
> directory. Another possibility seems to be including these binaries in the
> source of dvb.c (or as includes) maybe as constants of an array of bytes
> (HEX representation).
> 
> If someone is interested I can send the sourcecode of my dvb.c.
> 
> 
> 
> Carsten Rner
> 
>   -----Ursprngliche Nachricht-----
>   Von: Martijn van Heezik [mailto:martijn@muntstraat9.demon.nl]
>   Gesendet am: Mittwoch, 9. August 2000 01:31
>   An: linux-dvb
>   Betreff: Boot_up.axf
> 
>   Hi guys,
> 
>   I did a make install and all modules installed allright. Dependencies
> worked allright as well but when I try to start DVB0 (which I aliased in
> conf.modules) dvb.o keep nagging me about being unable to load Boot_up.axf.
> I found the damn thing but I don't know where to put it, so that dvb.o is
> able to find it as well. All I could figure out is that it should be in the
> current directory when I try and insmod dvb.o.
> 
> 
>   Martijn van Heezik
>