Re: AW: installing kernel-image

2003-07-15 Thread Tyson Whitehead
On Tuesday 15 July 2003 09:24, Lars Oeschey wrote: > I guess a 'abootconf /dev/c0d0p2' will do the correct thing for me, > since I boot from a raid? That is: abootconf device- The linux device representing the drive on which /etc/aboot.conf is stored. num- The partition number on which /etc/a

Re: AW: installing kernel-image

2003-07-15 Thread Lars Oeschey
Am Dienstag, 15. Juli 2003 15:14 schrieb Tyson Whitehead: > Sounds like you must have installed a new copy of aboot at some time > on the front of your drive (i.e. did a 'swriteboot /dec/sda bootlx' > -- bootlx is built with the Alpha kernel and contains the aboot > image). hm, I installed aboot

Re: AW: installing kernel-image

2003-07-15 Thread Tyson Whitehead
> A "boot drb0 -flags 1" (which points to my 2.2.20 kernel) doesn't work > correct, since aboot tells me it doesn't know what to do with the first > partition (swap) > > fortunately, I could get up again with "p 2" (pointing to partition 2) and > "1" (using aboot config 1) in aboot. > > Seems I rea

AW: installing kernel-image

2003-07-15 Thread extern . Lars . Oeschey
hm, what I feared happened, the machine doesn't boot that kernel. A bit of thinking would have made that obvious to me, I have "root=/dev/rd/c0d0p2" in aboot, but without DAC960 support in the kernel, it can't be mounted at boot time. A "boot drb0 -flags 1" (which points to my 2.2.20 kernel) doesn