Re: boot problems

["Donald D. Daniel" <donald.daniel@att.net>]

Neither boot or boot2 is listed in /etc/fstab, both are in the same 
partition
under / . ls -l gives exactly the same parameters for both. It seems to
me that my copy of aboot does not function the way the SRM-HOWTO
says it does, or I am not understanding something.

Thanks,

Donald Daniel


Falk Hueffner wrote:

> "Donald D. Daniel" <donald.daniel@worldnet.att.net> writes:
>
>  
>
> > My /etc/aboot.conf is as follows:
> >
> > 0:1/vmlinuz ro root=/dev/hda1
> > 1:1/xl ro root=/dev/hda1
> >
> > In /boot and /boot2 I have identical files including
> > vmlinuz-2.2.22.
> >
> > At / I have vmlinuz and xl, symbolic links to the two
> > identical copies of the kernel.
> >
> > If I "boot dqa0 -fl i" to get into aboot,
> > I can type "0" and one copy of the kernel will boot.
> > If I type "1", the other copy does not boot
> >    
>
> Maybe /boot2 is a mount point? aboot does not parse /etc/fstab and
> therefore doesn't know which partitions will be mounted where.
>
>