On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 11:17:03AM +0100, Philippe Guyot wrote: > On Tuesday 11 January 2005 18:09, Sven Luther wrote: > > [snip] > > > > > Installer warned me that there was no stuff for booting. > > > > > > So I suppose I have to dd /boot/vmlinux to /dev/sda1 but after having > > > patched > > > > Yes, but d-i uses the devfs path, so it would be /dev/scsi/... See the > > /proc/partitions content for a list of it. I have a burtal prep-installer > > who does this, I didn't yet check the partman-prep stuff, since strangely > > it doesn't work for me. > > I'm sorry but I need some help here (thanks in advance): > > 1) /proc/partitions contains: > > sda > sda1 > sda2 > sda3
Ah, yes, this is the 2.6 kernel. > 2) when lauching parted on a secondary console, it says > > blablabla... Using /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc > I suppose this is a "devfs path" Yep. > So, looking in /dev/scsi/......./lun0, I found > > disc The whole disk. > part1 > part2 > part3 All three partitions. > So have I to dd if=vmlinux of=/dev/scsi/....../lun0/part1 ?? Yep. > What I made first last evening was (after chroot on /target ) > dd if=vmlinux of=/dev/sda1 > with apparently no error (except that the machine is not booting). What did > happened then ?Isn't there a kind of compatibility ? It copied the kernel to the /dev/sda1 file. since devfs created /dev nodes on demand, it was not present, thus dd did not complain. > > > it with "preptools" from Leigh to make it aware of root=/dev/sda3. Is > > > that always true ? > > > > Well, the default kernel is set to /dev/sda3 already. Problem is that it > > seems the preptools need a kernel patch which we don't have, i have to > > investigate this. But as long as you chose the / partition to be partition > > 3, it should be ok. > > I made / the 3rd partition, yes. Cool, you don't need any preptool massaging then. Friendly, Sven Luther
