On Sat Mar 20, 2004 at 07:22:07AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> Cool. BTW, is there anything particular needed for a PReP partition ? Or
> is it just a plain empty partition that can be used for booting ? The
> box uses a MBR partition table.
$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda
[----------snip--------------]
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 5 5104 41 PPC PReP Boot
/dev/sda2 6 17000 17402880 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 17001 17461 472064 82 Linux swap
You basically just make a partition of type 41, then you dd your
kernel into it. On my PReP box I usually just do...
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda1
dd if=/usr/src/linux/arch/ppc/boot/images/zImage.prep of=/dev/sda1
to install a new kernel,
-Erik
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