On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 09:35:56AM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > Since I'm pretty new to Alpha hardware, I didn't know > > that I needed to leave several blocks at the beginning of the disk for > > aboot, I just sort of assumed that the blocks would be reserved, as they > > are on x86. This caused the "Install Boot Loader" step to fail, because > > swriteboot refused to overwrite the beginning of my boot partition.
> This means that partman-auto needs a recipe for alpha to create these > partitions. Also, aboot-installer should have better finish.d checks > (vorlon added some, but I'm not sure if they check all of the above). Yes, there's no check yet for free space at the front of the partition. If someone who knows partman well can spare some high-bandwidth face-time here at debconf, I'd like to be able to hack something out for this. > > I had a problem after rebooting for 2 reasons.. The default aboot > > configuration referenced vmlinuz and initrd.img instead of their full > > names. No symlinks were created to allow this to work. The other problem > > was that ramdisk_size wasn't big enough, as vorlon said in his install > > report. > vorlon, has this been fixed? The above is a symptom of aboot-installer failing. If aboot-installer is able to run, it updates the aboot.conf config to match the installed disk config and includes the ramdisk size setting. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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