From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Bottomley Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Re: Unable to get PALO to install on A180 Debian install Date: 06 Jun 2004 11:27:16 -0500 Message-ID: <1086539237.1747.71.camel@mulgrave> References: <20040605212309.GC8098@colo.lackof.org> <20040606161748.GC25343@colo.lackof.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: Harry Cochran , PARISC list To: Grant Grundler Return-Path: In-Reply-To: <20040606161748.GC25343@colo.lackof.org> List-Id: parisc-linux developers list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: parisc-linux-bounces@lists.parisc-linux.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 _______________________________________________ parisc-linux mailing list parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org http://lists.parisc-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/parisc-linux