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From: Andrew Finley <afinley@×××××××.edu>
To: gentoo-mips@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-mips] arcboot problem R5000 o2
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 22:32:01
Message-Id: 1101767520.18017.63.camel@populus
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-mips] arcboot problem R5000 o2 by "Stephen P. Becker"
1 Hi Steve,
2 Ok I moved the kernel and /etc/arcboot.conf to my /boot (and as noted in
3 the man page, made a link from boot to boot) and changed my arcboot.conf
4 to reflect the changes.
5
6 Now in the prom I resetenv so that:
7 SystemPartition = pci(0)scsi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(8)
8
9 then ran arcboot - then it says it can't find the arcboot.conf or an
10 ext2fs. Then it says to adjust OSLoadPartition to
11 pci(0)scsi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(2) Which I tried with no success
12 I also tried pci(0)scsi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(1) with no success.
13 My boot partition is on sda1, root is sda3, and swap is sda2.
14
15 any ideas what I'm doing dumb?
16
17
18
19 On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 15:46, Stephen P. Becker wrote:
20 > Andrew Finley wrote:
21 > > Ok, I tried.
22 > >
23 > > On the R5000 O2:
24 > > 1) emerged arcboot, then following the man page, I put it in the volume
25 > > header.
26 > >
27 > > 2) ignored the boot partition I made during the system install, and made
28 > > a file called kernel in sda3 (i.e., my root partition see fstab below)
29 > >
30 > > 3) I put the kernel that Steve gave me into the kernel file
31 > >
32 > > 4) changed the arcboot.conf to reflect my changes (see below).
33 > >
34 > > 5) then back to prom I did "boot -f arcboot" - result was an error
35 > > something like "can't find kernel looking in \unix"
36 > >
37 > > I tried several variation on this theme but with no luck. What am I
38 > > doing wrong?
39 > > Thanks again.
40 > > -andy
41 > >
42 >
43 > Why not just use sda2 if you already have it designated for /boot? You
44 > just have to make sure that arcboot.conf goes into /boot/etc. Also
45 > remember you have to set SystemPartition to the volume header from the prom.
46 >
47 > Steve
48 >
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51 >
52 >
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Re: [gentoo-mips] arcboot problem R5000 o2 "Stephen P. Becker" <geoman@g.o>