Re: boot loader

[Leonardo Saavedra Henriquez <leo@ubiobio.cl>]

Thanks Rich and Michael!. But I have yet another small problem.

 I left a small empty space in front of the disk drive,
 Now the debian installer made my "system booteable" without any complain.
 when the system has been rebooted  it start, jumps to bootstrap code and
 write in the console the meesage:

   	aboot: Linux/Alpha SRM bootloader version 0.9
   	aboot: switching to OSF/1 PALcode version 1.21
   	aboot: valid disklabel found: 6 partitions
   	aboot: could not find default config `a'
   	Welcome to aboot 0.9
   	Commands:
   	 ...
   	aboot>

and stop!.

Aparently the reason to stop is that it internally gives the command:

	>>> boot dka0 -flags a

When I give the command:

	aboot> boot dka0 -flags 0

the system start Debian/GNU Linux normally.

How can I change permanently the flags option from the SRM console?

TIA


  > What's wrong?
  >
  > TIA
  >
  > On 11 Sep 2003, Michael A. Mackey wrote:
  >
  >   > That way of partitioning the disk won't work.  Delete your small
  >   > partition and everything should be okay (you'll need to re-run
  >   > swriteboot).
  >   >
  >   > The correct way to partition the disk is to start partition 1 at sector
  >   > 3, leaving unpartitioned space up front for the aboot loader.
  >   >
  >   >
  >   > On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 12:31, Leonardo Saavedra Henriquez wrote:
  >   > > Hi all
  >   > >
  >   > > I have been traying to install Debian GNU/Linux on my Alpha server 800 and
  >   > > I have a little problem with aboot loader
  >   > > When I made the partitions (bsd disklabel style) I left an small empty
  >   > > partition at the beginning of the disk drive (from cylinder 1 to cylinder
  >   > > 2) for aboot, later the instaler program cannot install the aboot boot
  >   > > loader, I think the proble it could be the type of partition label.
  >   > > What kind of partition label it need to be? (unsused, 4.2BSD, boot,
  >   > > ...)
  >   > >
  >   > > TIA.
  >   > >
  >   > > --
  >   > > Leonardo Saavedra Henriquez
  >   > > mailto:leo[@]ubiobio.cl
  >   > > [leo-> ~ $] cd pub && more beer
  >   > --
  >   > Prof. Michael A. Mackey (michael-mackey@uiowa.edu)
  >   > Biomedical Engineering / Pathology
  >   > University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
  >   > Voice: 319-335-6058 Fax: 319-335-5631
  >   >
  >   >
  >
  > --
  > Leonardo Saavedra Henriquez
  > mailto:leo[@]ubiobio.cl
  > [leo-> ~ $] cd pub && more beer
  >
  >

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Leonardo Saavedra Henriquez
mailto:leo[@]ubiobio.cl
[leo-> ~ $] cd pub && more beer