From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3548 invoked from network); 29 Nov 2004 22:38:53 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (156.56.111.197) by lists.gentoo.org with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 29 Nov 2004 22:38:53 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([156.56.111.196] helo=parrot.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.41) id 1CYuAX-00081g-BQ for arch-gentoo-mips@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 22:38:53 +0000 Received: (qmail 5056 invoked by uid 89); 29 Nov 2004 22:38:52 +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 1655 invoked from network); 29 Nov 2004 22:38:52 +0000 Message-ID: <41ABA500.3010506@gentoo.org> Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 17:38:56 -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> <41AB98BD.6030203@vt.edu> <1101767520.18017.63.camel@populus> In-Reply-To: <1101767520.18017.63.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: 57507492-c83c-499a-a749-b693cc493ffc X-Archives-Hash: 2d9eaa3544ae9f729953ab69dc0ff2c6 Andrew Finley wrote: > Hi Steve, > Ok I moved the kernel and /etc/arcboot.conf to my /boot (and as noted in > the man page, made a link from boot to boot) and changed my arcboot.conf > to reflect the changes. > > Now in the prom I resetenv so that: > SystemPartition = pci(0)scsi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(8) > > then ran arcboot - then it says it can't find the arcboot.conf or an > ext2fs. Then it says to adjust OSLoadPartition to > pci(0)scsi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(2) Which I tried with no success > I also tried pci(0)scsi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(1) with no success. > My boot partition is on sda1, root is sda3, and swap is sda2. > > any ideas what I'm doing dumb? > You shouldn't *have* to adjust OSLoadPartition actually. Arcboot auto-detects that. You did mount /dev/sda1 on /boot *before* you copied the config file and made the symlink didn't you? In any case, I have the same configuration you do in terms of partition layout (with the exception of sdb1 mounted on /usr), and it WorksForMe(TM). Steve -- gentoo-mips@gentoo.org mailing list