From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25974 invoked from network); 29 Nov 2004 21:46:35 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (156.56.111.197) by lists.gentoo.org with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 29 Nov 2004 21:46:35 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([156.56.111.196] helo=parrot.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.41) id 1CYtLv-0006GG-2o for arch-gentoo-mips@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 21:46:35 +0000 Received: (qmail 10703 invoked by uid 89); 29 Nov 2004 21:46:34 +0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-mips-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail Reply-To: gentoo-mips@lists.gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-mips@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 11681 invoked from network); 29 Nov 2004 21:46:34 +0000 Message-ID: <41AB98BD.6030203@vt.edu> Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 16:46:37 -0500 From: "Stephen P. Becker" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041125) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-mips@lists.gentoo.org References: <1101332151.12250.17.camel@populus> <41A5307E.3060507@gentoo.org> <1101660743.27092.2.camel@populus> <41AA3D7F.1030504@gentoo.org> <1101763820.18017.5.camel@populus> In-Reply-To: <1101763820.18017.5.camel@populus> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [gentoo-mips] arcboot problem R5000 o2 X-Archives-Salt: 42928363-d1fc-41c0-8595-b1efa046bee1 X-Archives-Hash: d966acdc882c21f5a1869b2f1f3839de Andrew Finley wrote: > Ok, I tried. > > On the R5000 O2: > 1) emerged arcboot, then following the man page, I put it in the volume > header. > > 2) ignored the boot partition I made during the system install, and made > a file called kernel in sda3 (i.e., my root partition see fstab below) > > 3) I put the kernel that Steve gave me into the kernel file > > 4) changed the arcboot.conf to reflect my changes (see below). > > 5) then back to prom I did "boot -f arcboot" - result was an error > something like "can't find kernel looking in \unix" > > I tried several variation on this theme but with no luck. What am I > doing wrong? > Thanks again. > -andy > Why not just use sda2 if you already have it designated for /boot? You just have to make sure that arcboot.conf goes into /boot/etc. Also remember you have to set SystemPartition to the volume header from the prom. Steve -- gentoo-mips@gentoo.org mailing list