On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 03:17:25AM +0000, Will Newton wrote: > > I just installed Woody on a HP 712/80. > > I noticed a few things: > > - PALO needs a f0 type partition to boot from. The note does not reccomend a > size for this partition. I use 80Mb thinking it would be like /boot on my > other machines, but it does not seem to be used at all so I imagine I > could have used a lot less.
Which note? The dialog you get just before partitioning disks says: PALO, the PArisc LOader, requires a partition of type 'f0' on the disk it is loaded from. Therefore, if this disk will contain the boot loader you must create a partition of type 'f0' of at least 16MB. A further important restriction is that the partition you load your kernel from must reside within the first 2GB of your disk. The kernel lives in /boot, so you can either keep your root file system within the first 2GB, or you can create a small partition and mount it as /boot. and the install manual says something similar. The F0 partition is used by palo; there isn't any obvious file system on it you can access from Linux, but it is used. Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
