[parisc-linux] Re: Unable to get PALO to install on A180 Debian install

[parisc-linux] Re: Unable to get PALO to install on A180 Debian install

[Grant Grundler]

On Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 06:55:09PM -0400, Harry Cochran wrote:
> Is there some
> key sequence I can hit at the "continue" screen to get to "execute a shell"
> (in the i386 world, you have a chance to select several different kernels,
> like bf24, at the beginning ... I don't see this capability in the hppa
> version).

Arrow keys? ie down arrow until it scrolls to "execute a shell".

(oh, that reminds me...I have helge's arrow-key patch in my tree and
offered to test it but don't know quite how.)

> 	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?

If sda1 can't be mount as /boot, you need to split sda3 into two parts.
The first part (root) needs to end before 2GB offset. The second part
can be the rest of the disk.

> I notice that you don't have the "Boot" flag turned on for you f0 partition.
> Is this an error on my part?

no. neither firmware nor palo cares about it.

> My sdb disk is another 4GB disk that I have concatenated with sda3 to make
> /.

That's fine. Personally, I would use the second disk as /home or /var.

grant
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Re: [parisc-linux] Re: Unable to get PALO to install on A180 Debian install

[James Bottomley]

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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