Re: need help with milo and repartitioning
All these problems were fixed by using the milo provided by
Stefan Reinauer that is compatible with Reiserfs:
http://www.suse.de/~stepan/binaries/2.2-18/
Even the v2.4.13 kernel started working that heretofore would not boot.
On Thursday 01 November 2001 03:11 pm, James D. Freels wrote:
> I have a second Alpha machine (533 Mhz 164lx) running
> Debian/Alpha/Woody and v2.4.12 of the kernel. It uses the Alphabios
> and milo to boot. That works fine if sda1 stores the kernel,
> ldlinload, and milo, sda2 for root, and sda3 for usr.
>
> Now I want to rearrange some of the partitions (to convert all to
> reiserfs) and temporarily use sdb3 for root and sdb4 for usr while
> still maintaining sda1 as the boot space for milo, kernel, etc. I
> have modified the OS options of Alphabios with the parameters
> "root=/dev/sdb3 single", but milo seems to ignore this after the boot
> (note: I have /etc/fstab temporarily modified in the sdb3 copy to use
> sdb4 as usr, etc.). I can see the parameters getting passed during
> the boot, but the system boots exactly as before. It is as if the
> normal parameters were hard coded into milo somehow.
>
> Can anyone help me with this? One option I probably should do anyway
> is boot from a floppy (passing the same parameters) and see if this
> will work. A second option I might do is convert to SRM (similar to
> my first Alpha) which I like better anyway.
>
> Also, the remaining partitions are already converted to reiserfs. I
> also tried to boot v2.4.13 and it gave me problems for some reason.
> I noticed a v2.2-18 of milo that supports reiserfs on alphalinux.org.
> Do I need this to boot in this instance? The version of aboot I use
> on my SRM machine supports reiserfs also. Is this my problem?
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James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
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