| 1 |
Andrew Finley wrote: |
| 2 |
> Ok, I tried. |
| 3 |
> |
| 4 |
> On the R5000 O2: |
| 5 |
> 1) emerged arcboot, then following the man page, I put it in the volume |
| 6 |
> header. |
| 7 |
> |
| 8 |
> 2) ignored the boot partition I made during the system install, and made |
| 9 |
> a file called kernel in sda3 (i.e., my root partition see fstab below) |
| 10 |
> |
| 11 |
> 3) I put the kernel that Steve gave me into the kernel file |
| 12 |
> |
| 13 |
> 4) changed the arcboot.conf to reflect my changes (see below). |
| 14 |
> |
| 15 |
> 5) then back to prom I did "boot -f arcboot" - result was an error |
| 16 |
> something like "can't find kernel looking in \unix" |
| 17 |
> |
| 18 |
> I tried several variation on this theme but with no luck. What am I |
| 19 |
> doing wrong? |
| 20 |
> Thanks again. |
| 21 |
> -andy |
| 22 |
> |
| 23 |
|
| 24 |
Why not just use sda2 if you already have it designated for /boot? You |
| 25 |
just have to make sure that arcboot.conf goes into /boot/etc. Also |
| 26 |
remember you have to set SystemPartition to the volume header from the prom. |
| 27 |
|
| 28 |
Steve |
| 29 |
|
| 30 |
-- |
| 31 |
gentoo-mips@g.o mailing list |
Archives