In linux.debian.maint.boot Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Cool. BTW, is there anything particular needed for a PReP partition ? Or No, it only needs to be a < 4 MB raw partition of type 0x41.
>I believe that we may create a PReP-bootloader-installer or something >which would take care of moving the kernel to this partition. Not sure >though how this would work out. A bit like what nobootloader does. No, wait... we really want to use yaboot. I used to dd the kernel on my B50 but had to stop after upgrading to 2.6 because newer kernels cannot be loaded without a boot loader. And anyway yaboot is needed to be able to choose among different kernels, easily add command line options and so on. To install yaboot /usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot must be prepared with /usr/lib/yaboot/addnote and then copied to the PReP partition. yaboot is able to load plain zImage kernels. Do not count on ybin to work... >> When the installation finish and you reboot again. >> At the SMS level: >> Choose the disk you want to boot. >> Go to OF prompt (F8) >> o > printenv boot-device >> Check the output >> o > setenv boot-device <previous output>:1 >> BTW: I found that the disk I use has an alias named >> "disk". To check that run >> o > devalias On my systems I use this instead: setenv boot-device /[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]: I think that OF will automatically look for the boot partition this way. -- ciao, Marco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
