On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 04:58:03PM +0100, Philippe Guyot wrote: > On Thursday 02 December 2004 14:45, Leigh Brown wrote: > > Philippe Guyot said: > > > 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 ? > > > > No. CHRP and PReP share the same partition type to boot from, but > > they boot different things. CHRP machines boot ELF executables (like > > yaboot or CHRP vmlinux images). PReP machines boot PReP boot images. > > > > So, you will write the yaboot executable (stamped with the correct > > note section) to the PReP boot partition on a CHRP machine. > > > OK I understand that. > > But I have a problem in partionning: > > It's a new (for me) tool : partman and I can't find how to create a PReP boot > partition with it. (There's no choice for it nor an obvious way to force code > x41).
You can create the partition, and once it is written (while it is downloading stuff, but before yaboot-installer is run), you go to console 2, and run parted, and do a set <minor> prep on (try print to find your <minor>). partman-prep has not yet been written, volunteers welcome to do it, look at d-i webpage on how to gte the svn tree, and then look at partman-palo which is quite similar to what we need. > I tried whith a "do not use" but this did not triggered the installer . > > I'm thinking of creating a new iso image with an "old" cfdisk on it and > partitionning in the shell if possible. Should not be needed, see above. Friendly, Sven LUther
