On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 05:59:42PM +1100, Russell Coker wrote: > The next problem is that the boot loader doesn't appear to be lilo or grub
I do not know for the cube, but for the raq3 o raq4 it's the firmware which replaces the bios that boots the kernel by reading the ext2 filesystem (the kernel is in a strange place which in this moment I do not remember, but by reading the archive of cobalt's mailing lists one sees it). Raq's firmware contains also a backup kernel which cam be booted by certains operations (which I do not remenber, but ...) on the buttons on the front panel. Once I copied (by filesystem, not by dd) a raq disk on a new (and phisically very different) disk, and installed lilo (to boot on a non-raq hardware with a standard, non raq, linux kernel and a change in rc.local to avoid the software interaction with the raq front panel), and then the same disk boots on the raq (with the original rc.local) by loading Cobalt kernel in the filesystm (so the mbr of hda with lilo which woul have tried to load a standard linux kernel is not read). On the other hand, Cobalt web interface for administation is a BAD BAD thing whenever one knonws how to to more by hand: the interface is incompatible with pratically *every* good thing that one can think to do manually. And software updates by Sun/Cobalt have big, big latency times ... So I understand why someone wants to replace Cobalt software with Debian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
