Re: mdacon options

Martin Mares (mj@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz)
Thu, 4 Feb 1999 10:49:18 +0100


Hello,

> I've been using mdacon for a while now, and every now and then I want to
> change the VTs it claims as its own. The only way I can do this AFAICT is
> editing mdacon.c, change two silly params and recompile (I don't have the
> RAM to afford modules). Said recompilation takes ~4h on this machine, and
> my p200 is broke, so if there's an easy or simple way of putting the
> variables as boot params (or even sysctls:), and you have either the time
> to do it yourself, or the patience of telling me what to read so that
> I could (C manual in hand) do it myself, I'd be very grateful.

Just say "mdacon=13,14" at the kernel command line.

Have a nice fortnight

-- 
Martin `MJ' Mares   <mj@ucw.cz>   http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/
Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
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