From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from rhirst.linuxcare.com (pc1-hems4-0-cust107.bre.cable.ntl.com [213.105.88.107]) by dsl2.external.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2707482A for ; Fri, 21 Sep 2001 15:05:29 -0600 (MDT) Received: by rhirst.linuxcare.com (Postfix, from userid 501) id F3FA7B00C; Fri, 21 Sep 2001 22:04:27 +0100 (BST) Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 22:04:27 +0100 From: Richard Hirst To: Bdale Garbee Cc: parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] 712/60 boots fine Message-ID: <20010921220427.L24917@linuxcare.com> References: <200109211603.KAA01633@puffin.external.hp.com> <87g09gpkac.fsf@rover.gag.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <87g09gpkac.fsf@rover.gag.com>; from bdale@gag.com on Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 10:42:51AM -0600 List-ID: 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