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From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
To: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Harry Cochran <h.cochran@comcast.net>,
	PARISC list <parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org>
Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Re: Unable to get PALO to install on A180 Debian install
Date: 06 Jun 2004 11:27:16 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1086539237.1747.71.camel@mulgrave> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040606161748.GC25343@colo.lackof.org>

On Sun, 2004-06-06 at 11:17, Grant Grundler wrote:
> > 	Looking at sda1 with "Partition a Hard Disk" says the disk looks like:
> > 
> > 
> >    Name	Flags		Part Type	FS Type		Label		Size(MB)
> > /dev/sda1   Boot		Primary	Linux/PA-RISC boot  		59.11
> > /dev/sda2               Primary	Linux swap			     519.31
> > /dev/sda3             	Primary	Linux				    3715.32
> 
> That should be fine IFF sda1 is formatted as ext2 and THEN run palo on it.
> And then it can be mounted as /boot. This all has to be done by hand
> from "execute a shell" since the installer doesn't know anything about it.
> 
> At least I think that's how it should work since palo needs to mark
> bits in the ext2 block usage map as "used" or "bad". James?

Actually, you need to have palo itself format /dev/sda1 using the
--format-as=2 (2 is for ext2) option.  If you use this, you also
*cannot* specify a recovery kernel.

James


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2004-06-06 16:17   ` [parisc-linux] Re: Unable to get PALO to install on A180 Debian install Grant Grundler
2004-06-06 16:27     ` James Bottomley [this message]

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