On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 08:05:35 +0100, Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[snip] > There may be some problems with 2.6 kernels and pci irqs on prep. I will > investigate this shortly. There is definitely something strange happening. The image I used to do the (nearly) complete install will no longer configure the network. Very inconsistent. I will try it (same image) again later today and see if it "just works" next time - like it did last time. [snip] > > Yep. Until partman-prep is ready, you should simply try to add the prep flag > to the a small partition. I think the normal scheme is to create /dev/sdb1 as > a small (8MB ?) prep partition, /dev/sdb2 as swap, and /dev/sdb3 as /. If > partman is not able to do it, jump to console 2, and launch parted directly, > and do a set 1 prep on. Can't jump to console 2 - I can only comunicate through the serial console. However I'll give this a shot through the "execute shell" menu item. "set 1 prep on"? Haven't seen that documented anywhere, what does it do? > > Then i suppose that copying the kernel is just a matter of : > > dd if=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8-powerpc of=/dev/sdb1 > > but you have to have a small prep partition as /dev/sdb1, or the above will > erase whatever you have on /dev/sdb1. > I' have the partition ready ... Unfortunately, until the network comes back up, I can't get far enough in the install to access the SCSI drives (is there another way? Load the modules by hand? Which ones?). Without this, I can't get at the image I need to boot in order to get it onto the right partition. I also can't get it to another machine to net boot it. > > I tried booting up with the installer, going to a shell after the scsi > > was active and the installed system was mounted. I used sfdisk from > > /target/sbin to create a 10 Meg type 41 partition on the first HD > > (/dev/sdb0 eventually). I used dd to copy /target/boot/vmlinux to this > > partition. But it still won't boot. > > Ah, no sure what is wrong. I don't think /dev/sdb0 exists. Not sure really. > Actually /dev/sdbX doesn't exist at all during the install from what I have seen. The drives are refered to as /dev/scsi/host0/etc/.../etc/part1. I have two drives, one is 9 Gig with scsi id (0,4,0) (/dev/sda) . This is blank except for a 10 Meg boot partition; type 41. The second drive is 20 Gig with scsi id (0,5,0)(/dev/sdb) which is where the install is. I copied (with dd) the file (the wrong file I suspect) to /dev/scsi/...../part1 which should correspond to the first partiton on the 9 Gig drive. I see how much more time I can buy with this machine. It may need to go back into storage this week if I can't make it run. Not fun. Thanks for everyone's help. MikeMartin
