OK, hope this helps. I was using beta3 d-i to netboot install an SGI Indigo2 mips box.
I ran fdisk from a shell out of d-i, make a dos partition table so that I could then make an SGI partition table. Then I made two new partitions: Linux filesystem and swap. I did the ln -s part3 part12 trick in my earlier message to allow the installer to proceed. My netboot command is: >> bootp(): append="devfs=mount root=/dev/sda3 console=ttyS0" There were some issues with /dev/scsi/... and /dev/sda device naming that made d-i's use of arcboot not go well. I also failed to get a useful /dev/fstab out of the installer, and so had to create one by hand. There is some strangeness going on with fdisk and arcboot, the following are all from my system not that it is booting from disk: # dvhtool -d /dev/sda --print-all ----- partitions ----- Part# 8, start 0, blks 41230, type Volume Header Part# 10, start 0, blks 8386182, type Volume Part# 11, start 41230, blks 7800716, type Linux Native Part# 12, start 7841946, blks 544236, type Linux Swap ----- bootinfo ----- Root partition: 0 Swap partition: 1 Bootfile: "/unix" ----- directory entries ----- Entry #0, name "arcboot", start 4, bytes 67392 # fdisk /dev/sda Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/sda (SGI disk label): 133 heads, 62 sectors, 1017 cylinders Units = cylinders of 8246 * 512 bytes ----- partitions ----- Pt# Device Info Start End Sectors Id System 9: /dev/sda1 0 4 41230 0 SGI volhdr 11: /dev/sda2 0 1016 8386182 6 SGI volume 12: /dev/sda3 5 950 7800716 83 Linux native 13: /dev/sda4 951 1016 544236 82 Linux swap ----- Bootinfo ----- Bootfile: /unix ----- Directory Entries ----- 0: arcboot sector 4 size 67392 # df -T --si Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 ext3 4.0G 1.1G 2.7G 30% / tmpfs tmpfs 48M 0 48M 0% /dev/shm System Maintenance Menu 1) Start System 2) Install System Software 3) Run Diagnostics 4) Recover System 5) Enter Command Monitor Option? 5 Command Monitor. Type "exit" to return to the menu. >> printenv SystemPartition=scsi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(8) OSLoadPartition=scsi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(11) OSLoader=arcboot OSLoadFilename=Linux AutoLoad=Yes TimeZone=PST8PDT console=d1 diskless=0 dbaud=9600 volume=80 sgilogo=y autopower=y netaddr=192.168.x.x eaddr=08:00:69:xx:xx:xx ConsoleOut=serial(0) ConsoleIn=serial(0) cpufreq=150 >> boot 51248+240+192 entry: 0x888042b0 arcsboot: ARCS Linux ext2fs loader 0.3.8.1 Loading Linux from scsi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(11) Allocated 0x60 bytes for segments Loading 32-bit executable Loading program segment 2 at 0x88002000, offset=0x1000, size = 0x1c14f8 Loading program segment 3 at 0x881c4000, offset=0x1c3000, size = 0x37000 Zeroing memory at 0x881fb000, size = 0x2df90 Starting 32-bit kernel ARCH: SGI-IP22 PROMLIB: ARC firmware Version 1 Revision 10 CPU revision is: 00000450 FPU revision is: 00000500 Primary instruction cache 16kB, physically tagged, direct mapped, linesize 16 bytes. Primary data cache 16kB direct mapped, linesize 16 bytes. Unified secondary cache 1024kB direct mapped, linesize 128 bytes. Linux version 2.4.22-r4k-ip22 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.3.3 (Debian)) #1 Tue Mar 2 15:18:56 CET 2004 MC: SGI memory controller Revision 3 MC: Probing memory configuration: bank0: 32M @ 0c000000 bank1: 64M @ 08000000 Determined physical RAM map: memory: 06000000 @ 08000000 (usable) On node 0 totalpages: 57344 zone(0): 57344 pages. zone(1): 0 pages. zone(2): 0 pages. Kernel command line: root=/dev/sda3 console=ttyS0 Calibrating system timer... 750000 [150.0000 MHz CPU] Using 75.000 MHz high precision timer. Console: colour dummy device 80x25 zs0: console input Console: ttyS0 (Zilog8530), 9600 baud Calibrating delay loop... 74.75 BogoMIPS Memory: 93580k/98304k available (1797k kernel code, 4724k reserved, 116k data, 88k init, 0k highmem) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
