[parisc-linux] PALO do not start!

[parisc-linux] PALO do not start!

[Jacek Chmielewski]

Hi

I managed to install Debian on my HP 9000/J200 box (I used DHCP server and
netinstall lifimage). The installation procedure passed without problems. I
created three partitions:
/dev/sda1  *  1    4    16461  f0  Linux/PA-RISC boot
/dev/sda2     5   34   123690  82  Linux swap
/dev/sda3  * 35  277  1001889  83  Linux

After the reboot I get the following result:

Booting...
Boot IO Dependent Code (IODC) revision 1
HARD Booted.

... and everything nothing happens. I assume that I should see PALO
starting from the /dev/sda1 partition, but it don't want to start.

What could be possibly wrong?
Is there any solution or workaround for this problem?

Best regards
  Jacek

Re: [parisc-linux] PALO do not start!

[Joel Soete]

Jacek Chmielewski wrote:

>Hi
>
>I managed to install Debian on my HP 9000/J200 box (I used DHCP server and
>netinstall lifimage). The installation procedure passed without problems. I
>created three partitions:
>/dev/sda1  *  1    4    16461  f0  Linux/PA-RISC boot
>/dev/sda2     5   34   123690  82  Linux swap
>/dev/sda3  * 35  277  1001889  83  Linux
>
it seems that sda3 stand well into the first 2gb of your disk?
Do you have severall disk on your system and so do boot on the right disk?
if your system 'autoboot', interupt it with [Esc]; the main menu would 
show you something like:
   Primary boot path:    core.FWSCSI.6.0
   Alternate boot path:  
core.FWSCSI.5.0                                                                     


>
>After the reboot I get the following result:
>
>Booting...
>Boot IO Dependent Code (IODC) revision 1
>HARD Booted.
>
>... and everything nothing happens. I assume that I should see PALO
>starting from the /dev/sda1 partition,
>
yes

> but it don't want to start.
>
>What could be possibly wrong?
>
>Is there any solution or workaround for this problem?
>
Try to restart your netinstall, in the second menu you should be able to 
go into a small shell.
There create first /mnt/BD in your ramdisk and so mount /dev/sda3 /mnt/DB.
verify first the contents of /mnt/DB/etc/palo.conf.

hth,
    Joel