On Friday 22 June 2007, Wouter van Bommel wrote: > The above mentioned manual instructed to install an alternative lilo, which > enables kernel selection using the powerswitch during bootup. Since > /dev/hda1 still contains the original image which I would like to keep I > would like to install gentoo on /dev/hda3 (or /dev/sda3 depending on libata > being used, like the suppield debian kernel). > > However I could not find any englisch documentation on how to do this with > gentoo (the lilo with selection for example is still a black box to me). So > I was hoping that someon on this list can help me out with some hints and > clues on how to get gentoo installed (from e.g. a gentoo-stage file) and on > how to get lilo working like I have now, so that I always have a way to > recover without having to open the case to attach a serial console and void > my warranty (the box is less then 2 months old).
i really dont think you need to worry at all about having to recover ... the install disk is designed so that you take the disk out of the lantank and format it from another machine ... it's pretty much impossible to brick it even if you did `dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda` as for the included boot loader, the one that comes with the landisk is compiled to be non-interactive so even if you did have a serial console, you wouldnt be able to do anything other than watch the bootloader select the kernel for you the install process for the lantank is: - grab the install iso (you should have gotten it with the machine) - stick the iso into your desktop computer as well as the hd for the lantank - boot off the cd and format the disk and install debian - reboot into your normal distro - nuke everything in the disk except for /boot - unpack a gentoo stage3 sh4 - chroot into it and continue setting up like normal Gentoo system - the system will always boot /boot/zImage so make it a symlink to your kern the bootloader aspect needs work, but that'll be sometime since the one that comes with the lantank is a hack of the hack that is known as sh-lilo (or sh-ipl) ... you can find the sources for it on the lantank iso iirc ... really that crap should all just be thrown out and someone should port u-boot to the thing ;) -mike
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