On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 10:56:30AM +0100, Philippe Guyot wrote: > On Monday 03 January 2005 05:15, Mike Martin wrote: > > Now I'm very confused .... on my next reboot ... the network wouldn't > > work. After much trial and error, I got the current unstable d-i image > > to work. It did it all right up to the reboot (where is warns you that > > it doesn't have a boot loader installed). > > > > Now what! > > > > I have an installed system, but I can't figure out how to boot it! I > > have /boot/vmlinux on /dev/sdb1 and a root on /dev/sdb1. How do I > > write a boot sector or tell OpenFirmware to boot from this file? I > > tried to netboot and set root=/dev/sdb1 - but without the scsi modules > > loaded it fails to read the drives and panics. > > > > I think I neet to create a type 41 PReP boot partition and get the > > kernel onto it. I've found this thread: > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-parted/2002-09/msg00016.html > > > > and this: > > http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/support/solutions/champion_server/rs6k.shtml > > > > I tried booting up with the installer, going to a shell after the scsi > > was active and the installed system was mounted. I used sfdisk from > > /target/sbin to create a 10 Meg type 41 partition on the first HD > > (/dev/sdb0 eventually). I used dd to copy /target/boot/vmlinux to this > > partition. But it still won't boot. > > > I succeeded last year to install a woody on a 143P-140 whith the help of > Leigh > Brown (thanks to him again). And two 150 whit sarge also. > > I'm not sure, but I have the feeling that your image on the prep partition > (should be type 0x41) is not able to determine where the root is, so Leigh > did a piece of code named "preptools" in order to patch the image with the > location of root.
Hey, cool, where is this tool ? We need to package it for debian if it is not already, and use it in d-i, and maybe even mkvmlinuz directly. Friendly, Sven Luther
