On Thursday 02 December 2004 20:31, Sven Luther wrote: > 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.
I did that, verify by "print" that the 1st partition had flags prep-boot, type primary,filesystem ext2. The install came on but at end, says that no boot program was installed either I did choice thus (I didn't do anything like this, of course) or no one manages this hardware. Sorry but it is my translation from french messages... Did I missed something in configuring the prep boot partition? does it need the flag boot also ?Is it to small ? (I made it 10 Megs) should it not have the "ext2" attribute ? Thanks . Felipe > > Friendly, > > Sven LUther
