4 to 5 years ago I was only able to get Linux to boot, (Redhat, Novell, Debian) unless it was a physical disk. I have not tried that yet because I do not have an empty disk to supply. And if that worked I would just uninstall it as that is "too expensive" in terms of resources.
I have tried the "install64/export64" options Guided LVM (and I choose as many partitions as possible) and the Guided "one partition" - recommended for new users option. The partitions are created, the install runs fine, but on reboot - nada. IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM | Elapsed time since release of system processors: 28 mins 41 secs Config file read, 4096 bytes Welcome to yaboot version 1.3.13 Enter "help" to get some basic usage information boot: Linux Please wait, loading kernel... Can't open device </vdevice/v-scsi@30000002/@1:0> /vdevice/v-scsi@30000002/@1:2,/boot/vmlinux: Unable to open file, Invalid device boot: help Press the tab key for a list of defined images. The label marked with a "*" is is the default image, press <return> to boot it. To boot any other label simply type its name and press <return>. To boot a kernel image which is not defined in the yaboot configuration file, enter the kernel image name as [[device:][partno],]/path, where "device:" is the OpenFirmware device path to the disk the image resides on, and "partno" is the partition number the image resides on. Note that the comma (,) is only required if you specify an OpenFirmware device, if you only specify a filename you should not start it with a "," If you omit "device:" and "partno" yaboot will use the values of "device=" and "partition=" in yaboot.conf, right now those are set to: device=/vdevice/v-scsi@30000002/@1 partition=2 boot: That is all I get. I am willing to spend some time on this - but I do not know the "Linux" way these days. Clear instructions, clear requests for info (e.g., if you can jump out of the install and look at something, manual divvy if you prefer, etc..) just might be a few hours to days between responses as I also have regular work to attend to. Thanks!!! for your assistance! Michael On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 9:36 PM, Frank Fegert <fra.nospam...@gmx.de> wrote: > Hello, > > On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 08:36:10PM +0100, Michael Felt wrote: > > >From memory it is creating three partitions - boot, swap and /. The boot > > partition is position 1 iirc. > > i'd probably start with the guided partitioning and modify from > there to your own needs. A bootable setup looks like this in my > case, with sda2 being "/": > > host:/# sfdisk -l > Disk /dev/sda: 36864 cylinders, 64 heads, 32 sectors/track > Warning: The partition table looks like it was made > for C/H/S=*/255/63 (instead of 36864/64/32). > For this listing I'll assume that geometry. > Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting > from 0 > > Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System > /dev/sda1 * 0+ 0 1- 8001 41 PPC PReP Boot > /dev/sda2 1 122 122 979965 83 Linux > /dev/sda3 123 4698 4576 36756720 8e Linux LVM > /dev/sda4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty > > Is yours a LPARed environment with disks mapped from VIO servers, > or are the disks real physical ones? > > Best regards, > > Frank >
