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# B.1. A500 Session dump using PALO 0.97

    Main Menu: Enter command or menu > bo scsi.5.0 ipl
    Interact with IPL (Y, N, or Cancel)?> y

    Booting...
    Boot IO Dependent Code (IODC) revision 1

    HARD Booted.
    palo ipl 0.97 root@c3k Tue Nov 27 14:51:48 MST 2001
    Information: Boot device can't seek past 2Gb (ignore next error).
    byteio_read: seekread() returned -1 expected 2048

    Partition Start(MB) End(MB) Id Type
    1               1      15   f0 Palo
    2              16     503   82 swap
    3             504    2887   83 ext2

    PALO(F0) partition contains:
    	0/vmlinux64 3990942 bytes @ 0x44000

    Information: No console specified on kernel command line. This is normal.
    PALO will choose the console currently  used by firmware (serial).
    Current command line:
    3/boot/vmlinux root=/dev/sda3 HOME=/ console=ttyS0 TERM=vt102
     0: 3/boot/vmlinux
     1: root=/dev/sda3
     2: HOME=/
     3: console=ttyS0
     4: TERM=vt102

    Edit which field?
    (or 'b' to boot with this command line)? 0
    3/boot/vmlinux-2.4.17-pa3 initrd=0/root.bin
    Current command line:
    3/boot/vmlinux-2.4.17-pa3 initrd=root.bin root=/dev/sda3 HOME=/
    										 console=ttyS0 TERM=vt102
     0: 3/boot/vmlinux-2.4.17-pa3
     1: initrd=0/root.bin
     2: root=/dev/sda3
     3: HOME=/
     4: console=ttyS0
     5: TERM=vt102

    Edit which field?
    (or 'b' to boot with this command line)? 1

    Current command line:
    3/boot/vmlinux-2.4.17-pa3  root=/dev/sda3 HOME=/ console=ttyS0 TERM=vt102
     0: 3/boot/vmlinux-2.4.17-pa3
     1: root=/dev/sda3
     2: HOME=/
     3: console=ttyS0
     4: TERM=vt102

    Edit which field?
    (or 'b' to boot with this command line)? b

PALO was first setup to boot the kernel file `vmlinux` located on the third partition of the SCSI device ID 5 LUN 0. (We know this since we have asked BOOT_ADMIN to boot on this device). But we wanted another kernel this time. We have pressed the Enter key (to validate the default choice '`0`') and modified the text to match our needs, here `vmlinux-2.4.17-pa3`. We have also added an `initrd=0/root.bin` argument to the command line. We have validated our changes by hitting the Enter key. Finally we have decided that we didn't want this additional argument, so we have selected it and erased it. At the end it asked again which field we wanted to edit, we just typed '`b`' instead of any number and hit Enter to boot our new kernel.

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