On Thursday 02 December 2004 12:27, Leigh Brown wrote: > Philippe Guyot said: > > On Thursday 02 December 2004 12:01, Leigh Brown wrote: > >> Indeed. Could you just tell me if it booted from CD automatically? > > [...] > > >> I guess I can raise a bug for these once I've confirmed that autoboot > >> from CD is working for you. > > > > Good news: It boots automatically > > Great! > > > Bad news : At end,the install said there was not stuff for booting > > automatically from HD this hardware and that I have to boot /boot/vmlinux > > on /dev/sda1 whith argument root=/dev/sda1. > > Okay. Did you create a PReP boot partition (type 0x41) during the > installation process, either manually, or with help from the installer? > > > I tried from OF boot disk;:/boot/vmlinux root=/dev/sda1 with no success > > (return to prompt after accessing HD a little) > > That's because OF doesn't understand ext2, ext3, and the like. > > > May I have to boot yaboot from cd ? and after ??? I should read yaboot > > man page, don't I ? > > If you already have a PReP boot partition, as I mentioned above, > then you can boot the installer and drop into a shell to install > yaboot into it. Otherwise, I'd repeat the installation, this time > making sure to create the PReP boot partition. Also, make sure > yaboot is installed during the installation. With luck, having the > correct boot partition and yaboot installed might trigger the installer > to do the right thing. If not, drop back into a shell at the end of > the installer and manually setup and configure yaboot before rebooting. > > Reading through the yaboot docs before this may make things easier.
Well, do you mean that the CHRP box boots like a PReP machine ? And if so, why not dropping in the PReP partition the vmlinux patched whith preptools as I did for my 43P-140 ?
