On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 05:36:36PM +0100, Philippe Guyot wrote: > On Thursday 13 January 2005 17:21, Sven Luther wrote: > > [snip] > > > > > > > Now investigating why it won't boot from disk. I suppose a hardware disk > > > problem just after 3 MB on the PReP boot partition.... > > > > Ooops, ...after 0.3 MB ... > > > More probably a size limit. Make sure you set MODULES=dep in > > /etc/mkinitrd/mkinitrd.conf. The initrd should be 1.5MB and the kernel 1.2 > > or so yielding a kernel+initrd which is a bit below the 3MB. > > > It was a true harware error on one sector of the disk at the very beginning. > So I left a free space of 1 MB before sda1,sized sda1 at 7 MB, dd > vmlinuZ-2.6.8-powerpc on it and it boots. > Nice! > Thanks for your help. > > But I realized one thing while trying to isolate the problem: Changing > size/place of partitions with cfdisk needs a reboot for beeing ackowledged by > the kernel.....I'll see if there is already a bug report for that.
Just use parted, which should not suffer from this problem. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
