Re: Multia Install problems
Did you try partition "a" to start at 2 (not 1)? BTW, that swap
partition "b" looks rather huge. (Almost 4 Gig.? A size twice that
of physical memory size should be enough.) Also, "a" probably wants
to be ext2, too, and maybe bigger. And, "c" should maybe start at
the end of (a much smaller) "b" plus 1. I don't think things will
work with a filesystem's partition and the swap partition overlapping.
-Martin
"Mark T. Valites" wrote:
>
> I've been having difficulties installing debian onto my multia through
> SRM. I'm completely new to alpha, arc & srm, so please forgive my
> ignorance if I leave anything out.
>
> I've got the machine doing a tftp install & console over serial to an
> external scsi disk (Kid I got it from had redhat booting from arc) All
> goes well until the end, when aboot bombs with this output:
>
> aboot wasn't able to install. Most likely this is because |
> | your first partition overlaps the area where aboot was to |
> | be written. Either repartition your disk and try again, or |
> | boot the system using the rescue boot method and install |
> | aboot manually.
>
> In my readings along the way, I cam across suggestions that said I might
> need some extra room at the beginning of the disk & one that said I needed
> to create a disk label the size of the disk, similar to sparc. Neither
> and both seemed to make a difference. Here's the partitioning scheme I
> ended up with in the end:
>
> # fdisk -l /dev/sda
>
> Disk /dev/sda: 66 heads, 62 sectors, 1017 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 4092 * 512 bytes
>
> 3 partitions:
> # start end size fstype [fsize bsize cpg]
> a: 1 129 129 unused 0 0
> b: 130 2033 1904 swap
> c: 1 2033 2033 ext2
> #
>
> Any ideas or suggestions?
>
> TIA,
> -Mark
>
> --
> Mark T. Valites
> Unix Systems Analyst
> CIT - SUNY Geneseo
> >--))> >--))>
>
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