From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chuck Fleckenstein Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 18:14:27 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] CD intructions. Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org > The CD David put together needs a doc update. Could we put something up > on the web site? Here's a short howto: > > Boot your system with the cd in the drive. At the EFI prompt type (note > that "rescue" is missing from the docs: > > eli vmlinux root=/dev/hda rescue > > Log in as root (no password) and fdisk your drive: > > fdisk /dev/sda > > create a dos (fat16) partition (/dev/sda1) for later use by EFI > create an ext2 filesystem for your root (/dev/sda2) > create a swap partition (/dev/sda4) > and format them: > > mke2fs /dev/sda2 > mkdosfs /dev/sda1 > mkswap /dev/sda4 > > Now mount them using an existing directory and copy over the cd > > mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/cdrom > cd / > cp -a README.IA-64 bin boot dev etc etc.simple home \ > lib log root sbin tmp usr var /mnt/cdrom > umount /mnt/cdrom > mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/cdrom/ > cp /boot/* /mnt/cdrom/ > umount /mnt/cdrom > > Now you should be ready to reboot off the hard drive. Take the CD out > and reboot. The from the EFI prompt type: > > eli vmlinux root=/dev/sda2 > I did something similar to this the other day and it worked. The only thing I see missing from above is the change to fstab file that was copied to the hard disk.. i.e. change your mount point of root, /, to that of the sda2 instead of hdc1 (cdrom). /dev/sda2 / ext2 defaults 1 1 Chuck