On Thursday 02 December 2004 14:45, Leigh Brown wrote: > Philippe Guyot said: > > On Thursday 02 December 2004 12:27, Leigh Brown wrote: > >> Philippe Guyot said: > >> > On Thursday 02 December 2004 12:01, Leigh Brown wrote: > >> >> Indeed. Could you just tell me if it booted from CD automatically? > >> > >> [...] > >> > >> >> I guess I can raise a bug for these once I've confirmed that autoboot > >> >> from CD is working for you. > >> > > >> > Good news: It boots automatically > >> > >> Great! > >> > >> > Bad news : At end,the install said there was not stuff for booting > >> > automatically from HD this hardware and that I have to boot > >> > >> /boot/vmlinux > >> > >> > on /dev/sda1 whith argument root=/dev/sda1. > >> > >> Okay. Did you create a PReP boot partition (type 0x41) during the > >> installation process, either manually, or with help from the installer? > >> > >> > I tried from OF boot disk;:/boot/vmlinux root=/dev/sda1 with no > >> > >> success > >> > >> > (return to prompt after accessing HD a little) > >> > >> That's because OF doesn't understand ext2, ext3, and the like. > >> > >> > May I have to boot yaboot from cd ? and after ??? I should read > >> > >> yaboot > >> > >> > man page, don't I ? > >> > >> If you already have a PReP boot partition, as I mentioned above, > >> then you can boot the installer and drop into a shell to install > >> yaboot into it. Otherwise, I'd repeat the installation, this time > >> making sure to create the PReP boot partition. Also, make sure > >> yaboot is installed during the installation. With luck, having the > >> correct boot partition and yaboot installed might trigger the installer > >> to do the right thing. If not, drop back into a shell at the end of > >> the installer and manually setup and configure yaboot before rebooting. > >> > >> Reading through the yaboot docs before this may make things easier. > > > > Well, do you mean that the CHRP box boots like a PReP machine ? > > And if so, why not dropping in the PReP partition the vmlinux patched > > whith preptools as I did for my 43P-140 ? > > No. CHRP and PReP share the same partition type to boot from, but > they boot different things. CHRP machines boot ELF executables (like > yaboot or CHRP vmlinux images). PReP machines boot PReP boot images. > > So, you will write the yaboot executable (stamped with the correct > note section) to the PReP boot partition on a CHRP machine.
OK I understand that. But I have a problem in partionning: It's a new (for me) tool : partman and I can't find how to create a PReP boot partition with it. (There's no choice for it nor an obvious way to force code x41). I tried whith a "do not use" but this did not triggered the installer . I'm thinking of creating a new iso image with an "old" cfdisk on it and partitionning in the shell if possible. > > Cheers, > > Leigh.
