[parisc-linux] Re: PALO boot loader installation problem

[bame@hp.com]

I cc-ed parisc-linux@parisc-linux.org

> Hey everyone, i am having sobe trouble installing Debian hppa on a HP b1000
> , i
> have downloaded and burnen a netinstall ISO with kernelm 2.4.22 and got
> everything up and running, i booted from CD, i installed everything, partit=
> ioned
> the hard drive, got the network configured and the base system installed but
> when i try to make the system installable i get this error:
> 
> 
> Problem
> 
> PALO wasn=B4t able to install. You can still remote boot and point the root=
>  device
> to the installed system.

The most likely cause of this is the palo (aka F0) partition is past
the 2G mark on the disk or perhaps is too small or maybe there's no
partition at all.

> I have no idea how to fix this, "remote boot and point the dive to the inst=
> alled
> system?????" WTF???, when i reboot the machi and tri to point the boot load=
> er to
> the hard drive i get nowhere, can anyone give me hand?

Boot from the CD interactively so you can edit the boot command line.
Get rid of the initrd= argument entirely and change the root=/dev/ram
to root=/dev/sdaX where X is your root partition, then boot.  This'll
use the kernel from the CD instead of the one in the palo partition.

If this works, have a look at your partition table or post it here or
re-run palo by hand and examine (or post) the error messages.

	-P