Re: [parisc-linux] 712/60 boots fine

[Richard Hirst <rhirst@linuxcare.com>]

On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 10:42:51AM -0600, Bdale Garbee wrote:
> grundler@puffin.external.hp.com (Grant Grundler) writes:
> 
> > =?iso-8859-1?Q?Andreas_H=E4rtel?= wrote:
> > > It is difficult to understand for a newbie, that PALO needs file system type
> >> 'F0' but this type is unknown by fdisk.
> >> Or the 2. mistake, the partition where vmlinux is located must be lower or
> >> equal 2 GByte.
> >
> > Both issues are documented in the palo documentation.
> 
> Clearly, then, "just" having them documented is insufficient.
> 
> I noted when doing an install from the 0.9.2 CD myself the other day that we
> paint a splash screen before disk partitioning explaining that there needs to
> be a palo partition, but that splash screen doesn't mention the 2G issue.  
> Perhaps it could be updated with some additional text?

Done.  Now says:

  | PALO, the PArisc LOader, requires a partition of type 'f0' on the disk   #  
  | it is loaded from.  Therefore, if this disk will contain the boot        #  
  | loader you must create a partition of type 'f0' of at least 16MB.        #  
  |                                                                          #  
  | A further important restriction is that the partition you load your      #  
  | kernel from must reside within the first 2GB of your disk.  The kernel   #  
  | lives in /boot, so you can either keep your root file system within the  #  
  | first 2GB, or you can create a small partition and mount it as /boot.    #  

> Also, since cfdisk is the default partitioning tool called by the Debian install
> process, if the definition of partition type F0 isn't already part of the 
> list of partition types displayed by cfdisk when you pick the command to change
> the partition type, perhaps it should get added?  It might well be disconcerting

                                  cfdisk 2.11h

                              Disk Drive: /dev/sda
                             Size: 9100044288 bytes
              Heads: 64   Sectors per Track: 32   Cylinders: 8678

    Name        Flags      Part Type  FS Type          [Label]        Size (MB)
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    sda1                    Primary   Linux swap                         135.27 
    sda2                    Primary   Linux/PA-RISC boot                  17.83
    sda3                    Primary   Linux ext2                        1999.64
                            Pri/Log   Free Space                        6946.82


So F0 is recognised as "Linux/PA-RISC boot" now, at least.

Richard